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PREPOSITIONS . A preposition is a word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. " The dog sat under the tree." . Prepositions and Idioms in English . 1) I'm tired ______ waiting for you. 2) He hasn't smoked _______ ages . 3) Nina is good _______ running.
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PREPOSITIONS A preposition is a word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. "The dog sat under the tree."
Prepositions and Idioms in English 1) I'm tired ______waiting for you. 2) He hasn't smoked _______ages. 3) Nina is good _______ running. 4) I'm looking _____ my keys. Has anyone found them? 5) They dream ______ moving to South Africa. 6) This song was written _____ Madonna. 7) You can look the word ______in a dictionary. 8) I can't come to the party. Don't wait _____ me. 9) She had problems ______reading the instructions. 10) The police car chased the robbers ________ the streets.
Prepositions of place, direction and time I'm Peter and I live ____ Germany. ____summer I like to travel ____Italy, because ____ the weather and the people there. Last summer I took a plane _____ Munich to Rome. ____ the airport we went to our hotel ____ bus. We stopped ___ a small restaurant for a quick meal. The driver parked the bus _____the restaurant. Nobody could find the bus and the driver, so we waited ______ the restaurant ____ one hour. The driver was walking ______the small park _____ the restaurant which we did not know. So we were very angry ____ him. But my holidays were great. We sat ______campfires and went dancing _____the early mornings.
Prepositions and verbsMatch the phrases with appropriate verbs: • At the airport • Out with friends • During the night • To the swimming pool • Outside the stadium • On the phone • To the music • On the beach • Behind the tree • Out of the window • hang • listen • talk • go • arrive • look • sleep • lie • wait • hide
Prepositions of Place Fill the gaps with the correct prepositions. • We live ______London. • Would you like to go ______ the cinema tonight? • No, thanks. I was ______ the cinema yesterday. • We are going _____ holiday next week. • There is a bridge ______ the river. • The flight from Leipzig to London was _____ Frankfurt. • ______ my wall, there are many picture postcards. • Who is the person _____ this picture? • Come _____ the sitting room, we want to watch TV. • Munich lies 530 meters ______ sea level.
Test your knowledge of the prepositions for ,while ,during. • He's been working _____three weeks. • I fell asleep _____ the film. • Did you see Thailand _____your holiday? • We talked ______ an hour. • He watched TV _____ I cooked. • _____our stay in London, we visited a lot of museums. • What did you do ______ you were in London? • I think I need to study Polish _____a few months before I go there. • I came up with a great idea ____ I was thinking about my class. • They drove through the countryside ____ they were staying in France. • He was out of work____six months before he found a new job. • I broke my finger ______ I was playing squash.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. 1 - She wasn't short, she wasn't tall; she was ____average height. 2 - What are you going to buy Hania____her birthday? 3 - The police are looking _____ a tall, black man who was seen standing outside the bank just before the robbery took place. 4 - The teacher asked the class to do the exercise _____the bottom of page 5 - As a child I was always ashamed ____my parents because they were uneducated. 6 - I was always very good _____Geography when I was at school. 7 - My uncle specializes _____ Sociolinguistics . 8 - We arrived _____ Lahore at 3.30 in the morning. 9 - I didn't see you ______the party on Saturday. 10 - There was a lot of coughing _____the performance of Moniusko's 'Fairy Tale' symphony. 11 - He saw her as the most attractive woman _____ the world. 12 - Simon is completely useless ______ sports.