Some prepositions practice with Cassidy on linguistiko.com

 

1.) Don't use with arrived preposition to.

Ex.: He arrived at the train station (not to the train station)

Use expression:

explain something to someone;

married to her;

on the 1st floor;

at that moment.

2.) Use at when we are talking about general, not specific place.

Ex.: I was at the shops (not in the shops).

Note: When we specify place we use in. For example: I'm at home, but more specifically, I'm in my room.

3.) Use arrive in or come to with countries, cities, villages. When it is a general place (airport, shop etc) we use arrived at.

4.) We use to for describing moving from one place to another (She went to the gym).

5.) We use something or somebody good or bad for us for describing it, when don't mean a specific actions toward us.  If a person acts toward us in positive or negative way, we use preposition to.

Ex.: Fruit is good for my body. He is bad to her, he is always hits her.

Exercises:

Answers:

1b with arrived we don't use to  

2b because it is a general place not specific Ex: I'm at home in the room  

3b  

4a

Answers:

5b

6a  

7a to + verb

Answers:

8a explain something TO someone  

9b

10a  

11b married TO her

Answer:

12a

A scary story

This Summer I spent a couple of days (1) ……..my friend Alice's town. We stayed (2)………her cottage, which had 2 floors. It was a remote village, (3) in the middle………… nowhere, let's say (4) ………. 2 hours far from the next village. Alice and I were sharing a room (5) ………the 1st floor; then one night just (6)………….. 4.30, a scream woke me (7) …… “Oh no, Alice!” I thought. Immediately I looked (8) …………her bed, but it was empty. I got out (9)….....bed to the room where Alice used to sleep, but it was empty, too. I went(10) …………………trying not to make any noise; I had decided to be courageous, but (11)……that moment I saw a terrifying shadow (12)………..the kitchen and I thought that it would be a good idea to phone the police. I crept (13)……………….…. the dinning room because that was where the phone was. However, I was looking(14) ……….my shoulder to keep an eye(15) ……….the shadow, when I cut my hand (16)……….a glass.  “I'm not going (17)………… shout, “ I thought. But when I saw my hand covered (18)…………. blood and discovered some more glass and more blood, I decided “I'm going to shout!”. So I shouted so loudly that the shadow started to move, and it was moving (19) ……………… me! I picked (20)………. a piece of glass (21)…………the floor to die (22)………dignity but when the owner of the shadow appeared (23)…………….the corridor she asked me: “What's the matter?” “Alice!!?? “ I said, “but you are dead!” “Oh, thanks.” “No. The blood. The scream and…the glass.”  “The blood is ketchup, the pieces of glass were the ketchup bottle and my scream was caused (24)…………the bottle when it fell (25) ……………my foot.”

Answers:

1in 2at 3of 4about  5on  6before  7up    8at  9of  10downstairs  11at  12in  13towards    14over  15on  16on  17to  18in  19towards  20up    21from  22with  23in  24by  

These notes were written in the Cassidy’s classes 15/02/2015 and 26/02/2015