APPENDIX D: Prepositions LONGMAN COMPLETE COURSE FOR THE TOEFL

LONGMAN COMPLETE COURSE FOR THE TOEFL

APPENDIX D:

Prepositions

Directions: Study the list of prepositions. Then underline the prepositions in each sentence. Circle the prepositional phrases (prepositions + modifiers + objects). The number in parentheses indicates how many prepositions you should find in each group of sentences.

PREPOSITIONS
about above across after against along among around as at	behind below beneath beside between beyond by despite down during	except for from in inside into like near of off	on onto outside over past since through throughout to toward	under underneath unlike until up upon versus with within without

EXERCISE D1 (21 prepositions)

1	Advocacy of technology as the panacea for our environmental woes is not without its detractors.
2	State Highway 227 runs east of U.S. Highway 101, from San Luis Obispo in the north to Arroyo Grande in the south.
3	All four components of the Milky Way appear to be embedded in a large, dark corona of invisible material.
4	Over the last three decades, we have seen a consistent worldwide decline in membership of private-sector international trade union federations.
5	There is not complete agreement on the correlation of the various cultures and the glacial sequence, but many think that the Villafranchion, characterized by crudely worked pebble tools, roughly spherical in form, belongs in the early phase of the First Glacial Period.

EXERCISE D2 (34 prepositions)

1	A combination of factors appear to have led to the decline of the beetle, all of them directly or indirectly due to human influence but none conclusively proven.
2	At ground level, ozone is produced by a photochemical interaction of the Sun with gases such as nitrogen oxides and unburnt hydrocarbons.
3	The Army of the Potomac under General George Meade and the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee had stumbled upon each other four days earlier at the edge of this little Pennsylvania county of 2,400 inhabitants.
4	With this sudden and vast wealth, by the turn of the century, Trinity Church was an ecclesiastical empire with 8,500 communicants and nine chapels scattered around New York City besides the main church itself.
5	Through modern film footage, this video production retraces the route followed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their epochal two-year (1804-1806), eight-thousand-mile round-trip journey by keelboat, on horseback, on foot , and by canoe up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, and down the Snake and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean.

EXERCISE D3 (35 prepositions)

1	During the era from the end of the Civil War to about 1890, there was a land settlement boom within the United States.
2	By coincidence, the Finnish results were released at the same time than an American study confirmed the cancer-fighting potential of a chemical in broccoli known as sulforaphane.
3	At windswept Kitty Hawk, along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the Wright Brothers National Memorial pays tribute to the brothers and their historic first flight on December 17, 1903.
4	A wide central hall, running past the Garden court, from one end of the building to the other, has four large cases of souvenirs from both palaces, including a program printed for President Warren G. Harding’s visit.
5	Like historians raiding an archive of ancient texts, two atmospheric scientists are sifting through old satellite date, looking for a means of extending ozone records back in time in order to prove or disprove a hypothesis; on the basis of ground measurements made in Antarctica since the 1950s, researchers believe that the annual Antarctic ozone hole first appeared in a mild form during the late 1970s and then grew worse in the 1980s.

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