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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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