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A. Underline the incorrect prepositions and write the correct ones in the blanks

given alongside.
Error Correction
1. It was dark when the train passed into the tunnel.

2. Be careful when you dive in the swimming pool!

3. I saw a little rat hiding on the jar.

4. The horse jumped into the fence of the farm.

5. Do not keep your dirty shoes outside the room.

6. The clock is below the mantelpiece.

Read these sentences.

• Half Chicken said good bye to his mother and left the ranch.

• The guard went inside the palace, but instead of the King, he showed up with the Cook.

• The Cook wanted to make soup, so he grabbed the chicken.

• Do you want corn soup or tomato soup?

The highlighted words help to join two sentences. Such words are called conjunctions.

Words like for, yet, because, when, while, if, though, before and after are also conjunctions.

B. Choose the correct option to join these sentences.

1. Keep quiet or leave the room.

for while

2. I bought a sandwich but I was hungry
so because

3. Sanjana wants to go yet her brother wants to stay

camping when but at home.

4. We must return home before it gets dark.

though if
5. Abish does not know after he joined swimming

how to swim when so classes.

6. Father spends time yet he is busy.
with us because though

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