Mastering English Prepositions and Relative Clauses

Mastering English Prepositions

• We don't go to school on Sundays.
• Wait for me at the bus stop.
• We arrive in Winchester at exactly 6 o'clock.
• Come at 10 on Sunday morning.
• I bought this hat for fifty pence.
• He hasn't been here since Monday.
• Our cat was bitten by a dog.
• My home is in London, but I was born in Lyton, a small village in Devonshire.
• Put your books on the table.
• You may write in pencil.
• There's no bus; we'll have to go on foot.
• We went to the seaside by car.
• Get on the bus here, and get off at the third stop.
• Many planes fly over the Atlantic nowadays.
• We've been waiting for over an hour.
• I'll call on you at a more convenient time.
• Hold it carefully between your thumb and first finger.
• I couldn't hear what they were talking about.
• A girl with blue eyes has just gone past the door.
• Here's a present for you; don't forget it and go home with it.
• The teacher was sitting at a desk in the class.
• Behind him was the blackboard.
• As he was coming towards me, he threw some orange peel over the fence on his way into the garden.
• They were standing between the two houses.
• We had to go to the hill to a little house at the top.
• She was looking through the window at the busy street.
• We walked to the main road, turned left by the railway station, and went as far as the third turning on the right.
• Read from line 10 to line 20 on page 7.
• You can use my knife to cut it with.
• The stream ran through a little tunnel under the road.

Understanding Relative Clauses

• The author, who has been to Paris, has just returned.
• Budapest, which is on the Danube, is a beautiful city.
• Louis XIV, whom we mentioned last week, became King in 1643.
• Darth Vader, whom everybody feared, was Luke Skywalker's father.
• In Norway, which is a Baltic country, you can see the midnight sun.
• The chief of police, whose work is very important, takes care of public safety.
• Parliament, which has just started a new session, is going to discuss the new Bill today.
• Beethoven, whose music you have just been listening to, was one of the world's finest composers.

Combining Sentences with Relative Clauses

• Mme Curie, who discovered radium, is one of the greatest women of our age.
• The lark, which has a very sweet song, builds his nest on the ground.
• Julius Caesar, who was a powerful Roman general, came to Britain in 55 BC.
• Helicopters, which don't need a long runway, can land near the centre of a large city.