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SECTION 09 · Prepositions and adverbs in context

Prepositions

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How to solve: PrepositionsA text with gaps and a bank of prepositions and adverbs.

What it tests

Prepositions in fixed phrases (by profession, face to face), after verbs and adjectives, and in time and place expressions.

In the exam: part IX, 1 tasks.

Step by step

  1. Read the phrase around the gap, not just the word before it.
  2. Think of the whole expression: in the habit of, by chance, at least.
  3. Check verb + preposition pairs: depend on, consist of, interested in.
  4. Time: in (months, years), on (days, dates), at (clock times); place: in/on/at.
  5. Use each bank word once; one is extra.

Watch out for

  • Translating the preposition from your own language.
  • till vs by: till = up to that moment, by = no later than.
  • along / across / through — direction matters.

Example

As Monsieur, watchmaker ____ profession, was strolling ____ the boulevard…

by profession (fixed phrase), strolling along the boulevard (movement following a street).

Text 6
EXERCISE TEXT

In the country of China, there is a wall that is 1,500 miles long. It is called the Great Wall of China. It winds uphill and down, 1 valleys and mountains. Every inch of this 1,500-mile wall was made 2 hand.

The Great Wall of China was made many, many years ago. The people of China made it to keep 3 their enemies. There are watch towers all 4 the way. The wall is made of bricks and earth. It is high and wide 5 top. People can walk along the top as if it were a road. It is said that it took ten years to build one part of this wall. No other defence line has ever been made as long as the Great Wall of China.

FILL IN USING THE WORD BANK

Choose the best word for each gap

1 beside2 through3 with4 out5 along6 by7 on