Answers

1. How are across and through different?

i. Across is for open spaces, while through

means going in and out of something.

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

ii. Around is used to avoid something, while

along is a planned route, path, or

direction

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

words

iii. Towards is getting closer to something,

away from is creating space, getting

farther

4. What does “back to” mean?

 iv. To return to a place

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.

v. I’ll be home in 15 minutes. I have to go back

to work quickly because I forgot something.

vi. To fix the leak we have to climb onto the roof

vii. The market has been going up with the good

news

viii. Each time we catch the ball, we’ll each take

one step away from the other person to

make it more difficult.

ix. Can we drive through this rain? It’s pretty

hard to see

x. Continue along this way for a mile, and then

you will have to go around some

construction to arrive at the stadium.

xi. I can see him from across the field