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8. Prepositions: at, to; preposition/adverb: in.
Insert suitable prepositions in the following.
Could I speak … Tom, please?
I’m afraid Tom’s … work. But Jack’s …. Would you like to speak him?
How do I get … the air terminal?
Turn right … the end of this street and you’ll see it … front of you.
He started going … school …the age of five. So now he’s been … school for ten years. He’s leaving … the end of this day.
He goes … his office every day expect Sunday. On Sundays he stays … home and works … the garden.
I think I felt my umbrella … the bus. I`d better write … the Lost Property Office.
We arrived … the airport … good time for the plane.
Can I look up a word … your dictionary? I left mine … home.
Our train arrived … York … 6.30. Paul met us … the station.
Have you ever been … the theatre recently?
Yes, I was … the Old Vic last night.
I`m returning … France … the end of this term.
Are you coming back … England after holiday?
He isn’t living … home now, but if you write … his home they’ll forward the letter … his new address.
I went … bed early but I couldn’t get … sleep because the people … next room were talking loudly.
… first I found the work very tiring, but … a few weeks I got used … it.
There was an accident … the crossroads … midnight last night.
Two men were taken … hospital. I believe one of them is still … hospital.
… the daytime the streets are crowded but … night they are quite deserted.
… first her father refused to allow her to go back … work; but … the end he agree.
… the beginning of a textbook there is a reface, and … the end there is an index.
He went … sea … 18, and spent all his working life … sea. He retired … 56 and went to live … the country.
I saw Tom … the bus stop this morning but couldn’t speak … him because we were standing … a queue and he was in front of it and I was … the back.
I`ll leave some sandwiches … the fridge in case you are hungry when you come in.
We’d better start … six, because climbing up … the gallery takes some time. I hope you don’t mind sitting … the gallery.
No, of course not. When I go … the opera I always go … the gallery.
He is always … hurry. He drives a tremendous speed.
When he began speaking … English, she looked … him … amazement.
Write … ink and put your name … the top of page.
We start serving breakfast … 7.30. Shall I send yours up … your room, or will you have it … the restaurant?
He’s always … a bad temper … breakfast time.
According … the guidebook there are three hotels … the town.
The pilot climbed … 5.000 meters and flew …. That height till he got … the coast. Then he came down … 1000 meters and began to take photographs.
I`m interested … chess but I`m not very good … it.
Who is the girl … the blue dress, sitting … the head of the table?
I couldn’t offer him a room … my flat because … that time my mother-in-law was staying with us.
The train stopped … all the station, and long better we got … London every seat was taken and people were standing … the corridors.
Shall we discuss it … my room, or shall I come … your office?
… my astonishment I was the only person … the bar. Everyone else had gone … the Casino.
The Loch Ness Monster is supposed to live …. The bottom of the Loch and come … the surface from time … time.
You can`t stay that he lives … luxury. There’s hardly any furniture … his room. He hasn’t even got a desk to write …
9. Prepositions and prepositions/ adverbs: at, by, in, into, of, off, on, out (of), to, under, with.
Fill the gaps in the following sentences from the above list.
I`m going to Bath … Monday … Tom. Would you like to come … us?
Are you going … bus?
No, we’re going … Tom’s car.
I saw him standing … the queue but I don’t know whatever he got … the bus or not.
How do you go … school?
It depends … the weather …wet days I go … tube; … fine weather I go … foot.
The car stopped … the traffic lights and wouldn’t start again, so the driver got and pushed it … the side … the road.
Someone threw a stone … speaker. It hit him