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Verbs & Prepositions

Verbs & prepositions CEFR B2 Topic: Verbs and prepositions across everyday life, work, study, travel, health, technology, relationships and money

Verbs and Prepositions: Everyday Situations

What this tests: dependent prepositions — the preposition a verb needs before what follows it.

Instructions

For questions 1–8, write the one preposition that completes each sentence.

1. He apologised forgetting her birthday.

2. She firmly believed daily practice, convinced it was the secret to mastering the piano.

3. The exam consists two written papers and an oral test.

4. Airport security accused the passenger carrying a prohibited item.

5. After the operation, he took several weeks to recover the infection that had delayed his surgery.

6. The patent for the algorithm belongs the university that funded the research.

7. Local residents strongly objected building a new airport runway near the protected wetland.

8. Many small businesses are struggling keeping up with rising rent costs this year.

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