Fill in the blanks with the best preposition: IN - ON - AT.
Henry will be retiring from his job two years time.
Taylor Swift was born ______ December 13, 1989.
Fill each gap in the following sentence with a suitable preposition or adverb particle.
Shall we stop the book store the way home?
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Unless we burn garbage, the air will be badly polluted. Therefore, I think the best way to reduce trash is to reuse and recycle things.
If there were no television, people _____ out more.
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Not many students get high scores today. The tests are too hard.
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Mary lost the ticket. She didn't go to the concert.
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If I got up earlier, I would have come to class on time.
Lan wishes she _____ enough money now to buy her mother a bike.
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I feel sick. I ate so much chocolate.
I can't finish my homework in all this noise. I wish _____.
I’m really sleepy today. I wish I _____ too much time on computer games last night.
Before the open-door policy in 1986, people _____ a harder life.
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She raised her hand high. She wanted to attract her teacher's attention.
He had to explain the lesson very clearly _____.
People use first-aid _____ ease the patient’s pain.
There wasn't _____ to finish so I didn't manage to.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
I did not arrive in time. I was not able to see her off.
- "How are you getting to Rome?"
- "It’s _____ expensive for us to go by plane, so we’re taking the train to Rome."
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It was an interesting novel. I stayed up all night to finish it.
It’s _____ a nice day _____ we should do something.
Jim likes living in the country because he can live near his relatives, _____?
She hasn't changed her mind, _____ ?
Read and decide which answer best fits each space.
Kimani Ng'ang'a from Kenya, aged 85, is the world's oldest school pupil. He has arrived in New York this week to speak at the United Nations about the of free primary education. Kimani started school last year, when the Kenyan government free primary education. He didn't go to school as a child because his family couldn't pay the .
Kimani has been very successful at school. Although he is only in his second year he has a lot since he started. He gives other pupils tips and . His teacher is very pleased with him. Kimani, who couldn't even hold a pen when he started can now even write a few words of Swahili. Among his favourite subjects are maths and science. He says English is very difficult to learn but he will keep up trying.
Kenya used to be a British colony, and in the 1950s, Kimani fought for with the Mau Mau rebels. He wants to learn maths to count his money, he says. He also wants to learn to read the Bible. "You are never too old to learn", he told reporters.
Recently, Kimani has achieved a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest primary school pupil. He has 30 great-grandchildren. Two of them are in the same school as him , but they are in higher years. Kimani waited a long time for the first day at school, but he never gave and he finally . He wants to tell world leaders that all children should be able to go to school. "To me, freedom means going to school and learning," he told reporters.