ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE


Use prepositions / adverbs


Classes : 5ème

These is a list of prepositions/ adverbs(at,by,in,into,of,off,on,out(of),to,under,with). Insert suitable prepositions/adverbs, choosing from the above list.

1. I'm going to bath……Monday……Tom. Would you like to come…..us?
Are you going…….bus?
No, we're going……..Tom's car.
2. I saw him standing……..the queue but I don't know whether he get…….the car or not.
3. How do you go to school?
It depends……the weather……wet days I go…….bus.…fine weather I go……foot.
4. The car stopped………the traffic lights and would not start again, so the driver got…..and pushed it ……the side…….oft he road.
5. Someone threw a stone…….the speaker. It hit him……the head and knocked his hat……..
6. I want to post this……a friend……Italy. Will he have to pay duty……..it?
7. According…….Tom, it is impossible to live…….Paris…….less than 3,000 a year.
8. Are you……your own (= alone)?
9. You ought to be ashamed……..yourself for coming…….my nice clean kitchen…….muddy boots.
10. Children get present……Christmas and……their birthday.
11. How would we get……. (= escape from) this room if the hotel was…..fire?
12. He arrived……London……6 p.m….a foggy November day.
13. The man…….his back……the camera is the Minister…….State for war.
14. How do I get……the public Library?
Go…..the end…….this Street and turn right; turn left…..the next office lights and then take the second turning…..your right. This will bring you…..Brook Street, and you'll find the Library……your left.
15. Alternatively, you could get a 14 bus……this stop and ask the driver to tell you where to get….. (= alight).


Correction

1.on; with; with; by; in
-/- 2.in; on/into
-/- 3.to; on; on; by; in; on
-/- 4.at; out; of
-/- 5.at; on; off
-/- 6.to; in; on
-/- 7.to; in; on
-/- 8.on; with; of
-/- 9.of; into; in/with
-/- 10.at; on
-/- 11.out of; on
-/- 12.in; at; on; in
-/- 13.with; to; of
-/- 14.to; to; of; at; to/on; to; on
-/- 15.at; off/out.