Question

Insert the correct prepositions.
1. Don’t put us … trouble, Mike! 2. Keep … reading, Ann.
Don’t stop! 3. One can’t live … food or water. 4. She ran
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… of the room in tears. 5. She was broken … when she
heard the news. 6. Are you afraid … diffi culties, boys?
7. Has he given … smoking? 8. Come …, the taxi is here.
9. He is not aware … his failure yet. 10. We’ll see you …
at the airport. 11. Go … reading, Bob. 12. Sorry; I can’t
take … the problem at once. 13. We have run … of
fl our. 14. She will have to put … her departure. She
is ill. 15. Don’t give … your dreams! 16. He is not in
Chişinău now; he is … on business. 17. I can’t make…
her handwriting. 18. It is his child he should provide
… at the moment. 19. What is going … here, children?
20. What brings … the value of this novel?

Answer 1

1 - in
2 - on
3 - without
4 - out
5 - up
6 - of
7 - up
8 - on
9 - of
10 - down
11 - up
12 - of
13 - off
14 - on
15 - up 
16 - down
17 - on
18 - up
19 - on
20 - of