How Good are Your Prepositions? - Les Prépositions en Anglais

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About This Book

Part One of the book presents notions related to prepositions, with some context to better highlight their role in a sentence.

Example:
ABOUT -ON -OF
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ABOUT --> connected with (more general) --> This book is **about** Africa.
ON --> connected with (more precise) --> Her doctoral thesis is **on** 'Feminism in Europe.'
OF --> image, opinion --> I thought **of** you the other day. How very thoughtful **of** you!

In Part Two of the book, groups of exercises are brought together under thirteen different headings and come in different types: short sequences, fill-in-the-blank activities, multiple-choice questions, matching and word order exercises etc...

Learners/Readers can use this volume as they wish, and either follow the sequence of chapters or focus on themes of interest.

This self-study book is for all EFL/ESL and international learners of English.

All the explanations and all the exercises in the book are in English.

**Table of Contents**

**PREPOSITIONS - Meanings & Usages**

1. About - On - Of
2. Above - Over - Below - Beneath - Under
3. Against
4. Along - On - Away
5. With - Along with - Together with
6. At
7. At - On - In
8. By
9. Down - Up
10. For
11. Forward - Ahead (of) - Backward(s) - Back
12. From - From ... to
13. On - In - Out - Out of
14. In - Into
15. of
16. On - Off
17. On
18. Off
19. On the top of - At the top of - To the top (of) - Over the top (of) (OTT)
20. Onto
21. Over
22. Through
23. To
24. Together
25. Towards [UK] Toward [US]
26. Under

**EXERCISES**

1. Revision Exercises
2. Idioms
3. Proverbs
4. Mottoes
5. Quotations
6. Book Titles
7. Film Titles
8. Abbreviations & Acronyms
9. Headlinese
10. Geography
11. The Weather Forecast
12. Business English
13. Compounds with Prepositions
14. Exit Exercises

**FULL ANSWER KEY**

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