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Trang 1REMEDIAL EXERCISE: PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
Complete with the missing preposition.
Careful! In one place, a preposition is not needed.
01 Jim is the office
02 His wife is home
03 He is sitting his desk
04 She is working the kitchen table
05 He has papers his desk
06 She has a cookery book open the table
07 Jim goes the office eight
08 His wife stays home ten; then she goes the supermarket
09 the supermarket, she buys groceries
10 She walks her house the supermarket
11 She walks the end of her street a busy road
12 The courses is just the corner
13 She buys groceries the courses and vegetables an open market
14 Jim works the top floor an office block
15 He takes a lift (elevator) and
16 The only exciting thing that happened to Jim was that once the lift stopped the eighth and ninth floors and Jim was stuck it
17 He sat the floor until help came
18 When she has a lot to buy, Mary takes the car and parks the car park,
close the store
19 the supermarket, she walks the aisles, pushing her
trolley the rows of shelves
20 She pays the checkout, loads the groceries the boot (trunk) of her car, and drives home
Exercise Answers :
1)at; 2)at; 3)at;4)at;5)on;6)on;7)to-at;8)at-until-to;9)at;10)from;
Trang 211)to-to;12)round/on;13)at-at;14)on-of;15)up-down;16)between-in;17)on;18)in; 19)in/inside/at-along/down-between;20)at-into-no preposition
PREPOSITIONS 02 : REMEDIAL EXERCISE
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME
Complete.
01 The movie starts 2.30
02 The restaurant opens the evening only
03 Her birthday is Thursday
04 The restaurant closes midnight
05 We usually have lunch one
06 He leaves for New York Friday
07 The plane takes off 14.50
08 He returns March 24
09 We usually go holiday the summer
10 He went to Florida February
11 We are leaving three days
12 He goes to work early the morning
13 They eat dinner the evening
14 The train always leaves time
15 Will we be time to catch it?
16 Too late! We weren't time
17 Don't be late! Be time for the start of the race
18 What were you doing 1989?
19 We stay up late New Year's Eve
20 We are off to the seaside the
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1)at;2)in;3)on;4)at;5)at;6)on;7)at;8)on;9)on-in;10)in;
11)in;12)in;13)in;14)on;15)in;16)in;17)in;18)in;19)on;20)for
04 MORE PREPOSITIONS ELEMENTARY REVIEW
Complete.
1 I am leaving for Paris Tuesday
2 The match starts three
3 She is having a party her birthday
4 We are going away Christmas
5 They don't work Sunday
6 The cinema opens two
7 We eat too much Christmas Day
8 We have a holiday Saturday
9 My birthday is May 10
10 Her birthday is April
11 We must finish the work Friday
12 We sleep night
13 We work day
14 He died the age of 92
15 We get up early the morning
16 What time do we have to be the airport?
17 They live that house
18 He lives 24 West Street
Trang 419 They live New York.
20 I am staying that hotel
Exercise Answers :
1.on ;2.at; 3.on(for); 4.for(at); 5.on; 6.at; 7.on; 8.on; 9.on; 10.in;
11.by(on?) ; 12.at; 13.by; 14.at; 15.in; 16.at; 17.at(in); 18.at; 19.in; 20.at
09 ELEMENTARY USAGE
Complete the blanks with one missing word.
01 The little child stood the chair in order to see out of the window
02 She's the office gossip and knows everything everybody
03 Ice melts when the temperature is zero
04 The work of a government adviser is done secret, behind closed doors
05 His confession seemed make his guilt absolutely certain, beyond all reasonable doubt
06 The soldier saw his girl-friend when he was duty
07 The golfer got difficulties when his ball ended up in the rough, twenty metres off the fairway
08 We must keep the formula in as secure a place possible, under lock and key
09 After his illness, he was as weak a kitten
10 The boss wanted to know the reason his secretary was late
11 A taxi-driver has to be good remembering street names
12 I haven't been to the movies last April
13 The baby-sitter after the children while the parents went to the opera
14 He failed his driving test five times but in the he passed
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1.on; 2.about; 3.below; 4.in; 5.to; 6.off; 7.into; 8.as; 9.as; 10.why; 11.at; 12.since; 13.looked; 14.end
10 ELEMENTARY USAGE
Complete the blanks with one missing word.
01 Servicing a large car such as a Cadillac or Mercedes costs lots money
02 After the cow died, its calf was brought by the farmer's children
03 I've looked for my keys and simply cannot find them
04 The reason I failed is that I did not work hard
05 You need a of scissors to cut open the packet
06 Don't keep it to yourself me the secret
07 She had a party her birthday
08 I haven't been on holiday the year before last
09 I would like to diet but I am a little too fond chocolate
10 Let's pay separately You pay for your ticket and I'll pay for
11 That is the woman handbag was stolen in the tube train
12 Believe it or , P G Wodehouse is the most entertaining author I've ever read
13 In spite working until the early hours of the morning, he still didn't finish his work
14 How long have you living in London?
Exercise Answers :
1.of 2.up 3. everywhere 4. enough 5. pair 6. Tell 7.on 8. since 9. of
10. for mine 11. whose 12. not 13. of 14.been
16 Time Statements with "Since", "For" and "Ago"
Complete:
Trang 601 I have been studying English three years.
02 We have been waiting for delivery last Tuesday
03 They arrived here ten days
04 I met him two years
05 I have been trying to get through on the phone the past hour
06 The machine broke down an hour
07 I have been driving 1974
08 The new art gallery has been open October
09 We had to buy a new washing machine a couple of days
10 That politician has been talking six hours
11 I haven't had a cigarette I gave up on my birthday last year
12 I was waiting only a few minutes
13 He has been eating in that expensive restaurant ever he got his new job
14 I left the firm two years
15 He has been working here the beginning of the month
Exercise Answers :
1.For 2.since 3.ago 4.ago 5.for 6.ago 7.since 8.since 9.ago
10.for 11.since 12.for 13.since 14.ago 15.since
22 TO BE: THERE IS, THERE ARE
Colloquial English
Elementary exercise in the use of the indefinite "there is "
Examples:
There are no shops open because there is a holiday
There is no train service today because there is a strike
Read through the following aloud, providing "there is/there are" as needed.
01 no one watching TV because no good programmes on
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03 a lot of policemen about because a political demonstration today
04 a queue at the department store because a sale on
05 no complaints because good service
06 no hot water because a power shortage
07 no swimming today because no water in the pool
08 .there is a lot of work to do because a new manager in the office
The same sentences can now be read in the past tense: "There was There were "
Exercise Answers :
1 there is - there are
2 there is - there are
3.there are –there is
4.There is –there is
5.there are –there is
6.there is –there is
7.there is –there is
8.there is –there is
28 INDEFINITES: USE OF "SOME" AND "ANY": REMEDIAL
Complete the blanks with SOME or ANY or ONES.
01 Have you read interesting books lately?
02 They don't have any interesting in our local library
03 Surely they have ?
04 Well, they don't have by my favourite authors, but they have that might interest you
05 For example, they have science fiction novels like the you were reading last year
06 That's interesting I haven't read for ages
07 Well, if you want to borrow you can have my ticket
Trang 808 Well, I don't think I'll take out today.
09 Like me, you're too busy at work to read novels
10 Too true And as far as science fiction novels are concerned, I still have to read the I was given last Christmas
Exercise Answers :
1.any 2.any 3.some 4.any-some 5.some-ones 6.any 7.some
8.any 9.any 10.ones