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7. Get ___________ the train. It’s going to leave.
8. The man chased by the locals ran ___________ the shop.
9. The butterfly flew ___________ the room through the window.
10. He has never been ___________ a cricket match.
III. Choose the correct preposition to fill in the blanks.
1. Sara lived ___________ (in/at) Mumbai for two years to study music.
2. The temperature was ___________ (below/over) zero.
3. You have to write ___________ (on/in) the paper ___________ (by/with) hand.
4. We live ___________ (at/on) the main road, so we always get to hear the traffic noise.
5. The buses are seldom ___________ (at/in) time.
6. There were a lot of people ___________ (at/in) the room.
7. Your café is ___________ (at/are) the second floor.
8. Can you translate this from Sanskrit ___________ (to/in) French?
IV. Tick (3) the correct preposition to complete the following sentences.
1. It’s ___________ time you told him the reality!
on about in
2. The cricket player was sent back to the pavillion because he had done something that
was ___________ the rules.
without outside against
3. Another way of saying ‘old-fashioned’ is ‘___________ the times’.
beside behind outside
4. Ria shouldn’t pick ___________ him just because he’s a little lazy.
on to with
5. Where is the school library? It’s somewhere ___________ that big, blue building.
around about on
6. Being a president is hard work, especially if you’re ___________ the move all the
time.
in with on
7. Rahul is the kind of boy who knows everything ___________ everyone.
about on in
8. Zoya is, ___________ a doubt, the best student in the class.
without outside about
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