Prepositions

Make up sentences to show which prepositions we use after each word given.

1. Succeed. 2. Abide. 3. Trespass. 4. Write. 5. Compete. 6. Negligent.

Selected Prepositions

About. Against. Among. At. By. For. From. In. Into. Of. On. Out. Over. Through. To. Towards. Upon. With.

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Clay Lane Think and Speak

Clay Lane

June 8 NS

May 26 OS

The Story of Pentecost : Jesus’s apostles receive the gift of God’s Holy Spirit, and the startling effects quickly draw a crowd.

The Baptism of Kent : With Christianity faltering in the British Isles, Pope Gregory took the first definite steps towards restoring its vigour.

Edith and Edward : A King and Queen gentler than the times in which they lived.

The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.

Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.

England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

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