Prepositions: End of Chapter Editing Exercises

The exercises below are based on earlier units in our "Prepositions" chapter.

Today's Grammar HELP! Handbook lesson provides you with exercises to test your understanding of our chapter, "Prepositions" and to challenge you to apply what you've learned.  It is primarily for beginners and lower-intermediate learners of English. This is not an audio lesson.

Editing Exercise 2


 

The sentences below are from students' writing and contain errors with prepositions.  Locate the errors and rewrite each sentence correctly.  If the time reference is unclear, use what seems most appropriate from the context. Use appropriate punctuation. 


1. For a person in the Dominican Republic to survive economically, he must to earn about 6,000 Dominican pesos per month.

2.  For a long time, she could not to find a good job.

3.  We cannot to be educated if we don't read on a variety of subjects.

4.  I was working and going to school in the same time.

5.  I have been living in the United States three years.

6.  There are a lot beautiful places in Moscow.

7.  The weekend is a time just have fun.

8.  I took dance classes two days on the week during one year.

The Answer Key

Check your answers for Editing Practice #2 in the Answer Key.

This completes our unit on Prepositions.

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