Practice

1. How are across and through different?

2. What’s the difference between along and around?

3. Define “towards” and “away from” in your own words

4. What does “back to” mean?

5. Complete the sentences with the appropriate

preposition of time, across, through, along, around, in,

out of, onto, off, up, down, over, under, towards, away

from, or back to.

a. I’ll be home in 15 minutes. I have to go _____

work quickly because I forgot something.

b. To fix the leak we have to climb _____ the roof

c. The market has been going _____ with the good

news
d. Each time we catch the ball, we’ll each take one

step _____ from the other person to make it more

difficult.

e. Can we drive _____ this rain? It’s pretty hard to

see

f. Continue _____ this way for a mile, and then you

will have to go _____ some construction to arrive

at the stadium.

g. I can see him from _____ the field