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PUC ENGLISH WORKBOOK ANSWERS ARTICULATION PREPOSITIONS
PREPOSITIONS
A.
I. Identify the prepositions in the following sentences and underline them.
1) He threw the ball across the court.
2) They drove along the road.
3) Come and sit next to me.
4) Please don’t be angry with me.
II.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions from the brackets.
1) Revathi, go and sit beside (beside/besides) Shobha.
2) Has the train from (through/from) Mysore
arrived?
3) Don’t eat anything in between (in between /between)
meals as it is bad for health.
4) Varun waited for (for/since) an hour for his
sister at the bus stop.
5) Vidya is not afraid of (of/off) anything.
III.
Correct the following sentences.
1) The
shops in the city open on 9 O’ clock.
Ans: The shops in the city
open at 9 O’ clock.
2) He
lives at Mumbai.
Ans: He lives in Mumbai.
3) He
cut an apple by a knife.
Ans: He cut an apple with a
knife.
4) It
has been raining since three hours.
Ans:It has been raining for
three hours.
5) Distribute
the mangoes between all the students.
Ans: Distribute the mangoes
among all the students.
B.
I. PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE:
Look
at these pictures. Below each of them write the appropriate preposition of
place given in brackets.
(besides,
below, behind, under, on, over, in front of, above)
Ans:
a) over
b) above
c) on
d) infront of
e) beside
f ) below
g) under
h) behind
II.
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME:
Refer
the picture given below and complete the sentences with at, on, in.
1) Columbus made his first
voyage from Europe to America in
1492.
2) Neil Armstrong was the
first man to walk on the moon on
21 July 1969.
3) I am just going out for
shopping. I will be back in
about 20 minutes.
4) The course begins on 7 January and ends sometime in April.
5) If the sky is clear, you
can see the stars at night.
6) Shankar’s brother is an
engineer, but he doesn’t have a job at
the moment.
7) The telephone and the
door bell rang at the same
time.
8) My car is being repaired
at the garage. It will be ready in
two hours.
III.
PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT:
(a)
Refer the pictures (WB page no. 8) and correct the sentences.
1) Naga
crawled across the house.
Ans: Naga crawled around
the house.
2)
Naga fell over the table.
Ans: Naga fell off the
table.
3)
Naga slithered around the road.
Ans: Naga slithered across
the road.
4)
Naga climbed through the hill.
Ans: Naga climbed up the
hill.
5)
Naga moved onto the huge pipe.
Ans: Naga moved into the
huge pipe.
6)
Naga passed down the chair.
Ans: Naga passed through
the chair.
7)
Naga ran toward the tree.
Ans: Naga ran away from the
tree.
8)
Naga hurried out the car.
Ans: Naga hurried past the
car.
9)
Naga dashed over the pot.
Ans: Naga dashed towards
the pot.
(b)
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate prepositions given in brackets.
1) The elephant walked through the forest and saw the
man’s hut. (through/on/onto)
2) Mr. Hyena ran into the man’s hut and howled
for a place. (into/onto/over)
3) The ship sailed around the world.
(around/through/over)
4) The train went through the tunnel. (in/through/onto)
5) The suitcase fell on the floor. (into/on/around)
6) She broke her leg when
she fell down the stairs.
(off/in/down)
7) The burglar made a
mistake by running towards
the policeman. (towards/under/onto)
8) I was tired after
walking up the hill.
(through/into/up)
9) When the train arrived
at my destination I got off
(into/onto/off)
10) The horse jumped over the fence.
(over/under/down)
(c)
Complete the following passages with appropriate prepositions given in
brackets.
1) George Bernard was a man of taste. He liked to have
beautiful things around
(about, around) him. He was of the firm opinion that literature and beauty were
both equally necessary in
(in, on) life. Once a visitor asked him, “You are a lover of (of, on) everything beautiful. How is It that I do not
see any flowers in (in, of)
your room, though your garden is full of them?” “You are absolutely right. But,
I love children too. Is it necessary for me to show my love for (with, for) them by (by, from) cutting off their
heads and displaying them in
(in, on) vases?” . The visitor was speechless.
2) A little girl, who had been told that Lincoln was not
very good looking, was taken by (by,
with) her father to see the president at
(at, on) the White House. Lincoln chatted with her for (with, for) a while in his gentle, humorous way.
Suddenly the little girl called out, “Daddy! He is not ugly at all. He is just
beautiful.”
