PREPOSITIONS
Write in, on or at to complete the following sentences. Number 1 is done for you.
1. They are sitting at the table.
2. I want to spend a year in Barcelona.
3. The milk isn't in the fridge. Where is it?
4. Is Peter's office on the first or the second floor?
5. Why are all these clothes on the bed?
6. Please, put the clothes in the wardrobe
7. Are you at home?
8. I don't want to see her at the party tonight.
9. I like the sea, but I prefer swimming in a swimming pool.
10. Please, call me when you are on the bus.
11. The museum is at the end of the street.
12. I study at the university of Toronto
13. This is the best film you can see at the cinema now.
14. Where's Alice?' 'She's in the attic.'
15. People are usually nervous on their first day at work.
Complete the sentences below by choosing the correct prepositions, then press "Check" to
check your answers. Sometimes, more than one answer is possible. Number 1 is done for
you.
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1. The printer is the table the computer.
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2. Shawn and Noel were standing a tree waiting for the rain to stop. When
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they looked up, they saw dark clouds them.
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3. The children sat the campfire and told ghost stories.
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4. She thought her wallet was her purse, but it was actually
her pocket.
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5. A bird flew through the sky high us.
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6. I was sitting two very large people on the plane, so I didn't have much
space.
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7. Every time I eat dinner, the dog sits the dinner table my
leg begging for food.
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8. My car keys were the desk, but I couldn't see them because they
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were a magazine.
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9. I was the kitchen when you called, so I didn't hear my phone ringing
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because I had left it lying my bed.
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10. The castle sits two snowy mountains, and it has a beautiful stone
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wall it.
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11. Jane is arriving January 26 2 o'clock the
afternoon.
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12. It snows here every year December. We always go outside and play in
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the snow Christmas Day.
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13. Michael is arriving today noon.
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14. Frankie started working for her law firm 1995. I think she
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started June.
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15. Franklin began working on the project last week.
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16. Normally, New Year's Eve, it's tradition to kiss the one you
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love midnight.
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17. Don't be ridiculous; there were no telephones the seventeenth century!
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The telephone was invented the 1870s.
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18. The plane leaves tomorrow morning 8:00 AM.
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19. The hills here are covered with wildflowers early spring.
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20. The conference begins Friday 2 PM, and it will
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end next Monday.