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B2 practiceVerbs & Prepositions — B2
Write the preposition after the verb.
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B2 exercises
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Verbs and Prepositions: Everyday Situations
Verbs and prepositions across everyday life, work, study, travel, health, technology, relationships and money
Verbs and Prepositions: Everyday Situations
Verbs and their dependent prepositions across different areas of daily life
About Verbs & Prepositions
Depend on, apologise for, succeed in, accuse someone of — many verbs need one particular preposition, and the wrong one is among the most common mistakes in English. These exercises make the right one automatic.
What it tests
Each exercise has eight sentences with a gap after a verb. You write the one preposition the verb needs — a single word.
How it appears on the exam paper
Dependent prepositions are a favourite of the open cloze and the multiple-choice cloze, and they turn up in the key word transformations too.
Exam-style tips
- Learn each verb with its preposition as one unit: rely on, consist of, belong to.
- After the preposition comes a noun, a pronoun or an -ing form: insist on paying, succeed in finding.
- Some verbs take an object before the preposition: accuse someone of, thank someone for.
- The exercises use prepositions that are right in both British and American English.
A ready-to-print Verbs & prepositions — free worksheet with the answer key and explanations at the back. Download the PDF worksheet.
Frequently asked questions
What is a dependent preposition?
The preposition that a verb, an adjective or a noun needs before what follows it — depend on, interested in, a reason for.
Is there a rule for which preposition a verb takes?
Not really: they are learned as fixed pairs, though groups help — verbs of trusting often take in or on (believe in, rely on).
What comes after the preposition?
A noun, a pronoun or an -ing form — never the infinitive.
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