🔑 PREPOSITIONS: Practice Exercises Answer Guide

Use this guide to verify your answers for the expanded Prepositions chapter exercises.

Exercise 1: Contextual Passage Fill-In

Passage A Answers:

• Blank 1: → in / at (In the building or at the location)
• Blank 2: → before / near / within (Spatial positioning)
• Blank 3: → behind / outside (Position relative to the rail lines)
• Blank 4: → for (Duration of time)
• Blank 5: → out (Pairs with "of" to show direction: walked calmly out of)
• Blank 6: → before / near / beside (Physical proximity)
• Blank 7: → in (Interested in something)
• Blank 8: → with (Accompanying someone)
• Blank 9: → to / at (Directing a query to or at someone)
• Blank 10: → behind / beside (Physical positioning near the lady)

Passage B Answers:

• Blank 1: → on (Sitting on a surface)
• Blank 2: → into / upon (Movement cutting intersecting paths into a lap)
• Blank 3: → among / between (Jumping through the branches)
• Blank 4: → at (Throwing an object at a target)
• Blank 5: → in (Fixed phrase: "in return")
• Blank 6: → upon / on (Showering items down onto someone)
• Blank 7: → of (Collected all of the scattered items)
• Blank 8: → in (Part of the day: in the afternoon)
• Blank 9: → at (Preposition for night: at night)
• Blank 10: → with (State of having or carrying something)
• Blank 11: → of (Swollen full of coins)

Exercise 2: Slash Placement Framework (Missing Words)

• b) ...is sown in a shallow mud pot...
• c) ...every single day up to / till the ninth day...
• d) ...puja is organized on the ninth day... (Or structured at the end)
• e) ...food with devotion... (Or leave if "delicious food" satisfies your text line)
• f) ...gift bangles and clean money to these girls.
• g) ...sacred barley crops into / in the river.

Exercise 3: Editing Matrix — Error Tracking

• b) associated in October → with (Associated takes "with")
• c) celebrated between all the Hindus → among (Used for a broad group/crowd)
• d) upon all the different regional zones → across / in (Spanning geographical boundaries)
• e) worshipped over this brief period → during (Spanning across a known time period)
• f) Above the final day → On (Specific festival/calendar dates take "On")
• g) immersed into the different local rivers → in (Or keep "into" for motion, but fix "different rivers")
• h) crafting new forms by the next cycle → for (Intended purpose alignment)

Exercise 4: Advanced Prepositional Corrections

• b) She was emotionally sharing for them... → with
• c) spiritual experience in the banks of Ganga... → on (On the riverbanks)
• d) sitting silently on Haridwar... → at / in (At a city location point)
• e) filled up completely by absolute compassion... → with (Filled with an emotion/parameter)
• f) flow directly for her eyes... → from (Specifies the structural starting origin point)
• g) before a long, long time... → after (Reuniting later than the separation phase)
• h) ...traveled by foot myself. → on foot (We always say "on foot" for walking)