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17                        Prepositions










                                                                                     Warm-up


                Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.


                  1.  I have not seen him                   last evening. (since/for)


                  2.  They have known each other                      several years. (since/for)

                  3.  I will sit               Radha and Vijay. (between/among)


                  4.  Rahul is popular                  his classmates. (between/among)

                  5.  The school is                  the park. (beside/besides)


                  6.  Atul gave me a video game and a bag,                     two books.

                      (beside/besides)

                  7.  We live                  Tirupati. (in/on)


                  8.  They are going                   a holiday to Vietnam. (on/in)


                  9.                 my shelf, there are many trophies and awards. (On/In)

                 10.  My mother laughed                     the joke. (on/at)





                       A preposition is a word which is used before a noun or a pronoun to show its
                       relationship with another part of speech, such as verb, adjective, adverb or
                       another noun or pronoun.




             Kinds of Prepositions


             1.  Prepositions for Time
                 These prepositions refer to time in various aspects.




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