Worksheet on Preposition

Consider the professor’s desk and all the prepositional phrases we can use while talking about it.

You can sit 1. _____behind___ the desk or 2. ____in_______ front of the desk. The professor can sit
3. ____on _ the desk when he's being informal or 4. ____behind___ the desk, and then his feet are
5. ______under_____ the desk or 6. ____bellow_______ the desk. He can stand 7. ____by_____
the desk meaning next 8. _____to____ the desk, 9. _____beside______ the desk, 10.
___bettwen________ the desk and you, or even 11. _____on______ the desk. if he's really strange.
If he's clumsy, he can bump 12. ___onto_____ the desk or try to walk 13. _____through______ the
desk and stuff would fall 14. _from____ the desk. Passing his hands 15. __above_______ the desk or
resting his elbows 16. ___on______ the desk, he often looks 17. ______at___ the desk and speaks 18.
____to _ the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks
of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder 19. _____about__ the desk, what's 20.
______in____ the desk, what he paid 21. _for_____ the desk, and if he could live without the desk.
You can walk 22. _____to the desk, 23. ___towards________ the desk, 24. ____near______ the
desk, 25. ____across______ the desk, and even past the desk while he sits 26. ____on_ the desk or
leans 27. _____against___ the desk. All of this happens, of course, 28. _____in____ time: during the
class, 29. _____before______ the class, 30. ______in_____ the class, throughout the class, 31.
____after_______ the class, etc. And the professor can sit there in a bad mood

Read the following sentences and WRITE the appropriate prepositions for each blank:

1. we are _____at______ the hospital to visit a friend

2. who is ___in________ the hospital.
3. We lie ____in______ bed but __on_________ the couch.
4. We watch a film ____at______ the theater but ____on_______ television.
5. The train is due _____at______ 12:15 p.m.
6. My brother is coming _____on______ Monday.
7. We're having a party _____on______ the Fourth of July.
8. She likes to jog _____in______ the morning.
9. It's too cold _______in____ winter to run outside.
10. He started the job _____in______ 1971.
11. He's going to quit ______in_____ August.
12. Grammar English lives _______at____ 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
13. Her house is _____on______ Boretz Road.
14. She lives _______in____ Durham.
15. Durham is ______in_____ Windham County.
16. They were driving ___at________ work together.
17. She's going ______to_____ the dentist's office this morning.
18. We're moving _____towards______ the light.
19. This is a big step ____towards_______ the project's completion.
20. He held his breath _______for____ seven minutes.
21. She's lived there _____for______ seven years.
22. He's worked here ____since_______ 1970.
23. She's been sitting in the waiting room ___from________ two-thirty.