He fought the illness with courage and ________________ (DETERMINE)

He shook his head in _____________ (APPROVE)

They frequently (MOBILE) _________________ the traffic as they march through the streets.

Children are taught from young to be (RESPECT) _____________ to their elders.

What a (WORRY) ______________pair of children. They have to be watched every minute of the day.

Police asked (PASS) ______________ if they had seen the accident happen.

Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word.

(ADAPT)__________ to a new environment is a difficult thing for old people.

He’ll inherit the money when he comes ______________ age.

Would you give up your country cottage __________ a town flat?

Small children should be watched ____________ carefully.

“How can I discourage my boyfriend _______ trying to kiss me all the time?” “Eat plenty of garlic.”

At school today, we had a long discussion _______ the best way to learn a foreign language.

Is it possible to insure yourself ________ nuclear attack?

I am astonished ________ the way my students can spend all night at the disco and still remember their prepositions next morning.

Fill in each blank with a suitable PREPOSITION or PARTICLE.

I know ________ experience that I do my best work early in the morning.

I’d prefer to do it on myself because other people make me nervous.

I try to remember your name but I am afraid I cannot remember it.

When she was asked for her opinion on the course, she said it had been a waist of time.

Hardly the plane had landed when Adam realized that he had left the file that he needed at his office.

Judy decided to wait until after she had taken her exams before having her wisdom teeth pull.

John’s wisdom teeth were troubling him, so he went to a dental surgeon to see about having them pull.

Because the residents had worked so diligent to renovate the old building, the manager had a party.

Malnutrition is a major cause of death in those countries where the cultivation of rice have been impeded by recurrent drought.

Each sentence below contains 1 mistake. IDENTIFY the mistakes and WRITE THEIR CORRECT FORMS.

Had the committee members considered the alternatives more carefully, they would have realized that the second was superior than the first.

Van Gogh suffered from depression ____________ by overwork and ill-health.

Which __________ agency do you work for?

The President resigned; the whiff of scandal remained ____________.

If you can win his attention ___________ for you.

Drinking water _______ excessive amounts of fluorides may leave a stained or mottled effect on the enamel of teeth.

The first transatlantic telephone cable system was not established _______ 1956.

_______ is not clear to researchers.

Just as remote-controlled satellites can be employed to explore outer space, _______ employed to investigate the deep sea.

Read the sentences carefully and choose the best answers to make complete ones.

From 1949 onward, the artist Georgia O’keeffe made New Mexico _______.

Choose the word whose stress pattern is differently from those of the other words.

Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the other words.