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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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