1. Prepositions: Review.

Complete the text by choosing the best preposition.

2. Prepositions.

Choose the correct preposition.

3. Preposition practice.

Choose the correct preposition for these sentences.

4. Passive.

Patricia VanLester was knocked to the ground.
She was flown to Halifax Medical Center.

We use the passive here because:

a. Patricia is the main topic
b. it's not important or it's obvious who caused the action

Rewrite these sentences using the passive.

5. Passive with get.

She got pushed down.

This is an informal way of saying: She was pushed down.

Note:

• The passive with get often describes a process: The cut got infected.
• The passive with be often describes a state: The cut was infected.
• The passive with get is often used with verbs that have a negative meaning: I got caught in traffic. I got robbed. An exception is to get married.

Choose the best word to complete the sentences. Sometimes both words are possible.

 

6. Verb patterns: reporting verbs.

Patty claimed that she had been knocked over.

Some other common reporting verbs that follow this pattern are:

complain
report
admit
deny
explain

Rewrite these sentences using the pattern verb + that.

For example:

"I lost my way," he explained.
He explained that he had lost his way.

7. Reporting verbs and nouns.

The verbs in the previous exercise also have noun forms:

claim -> claim
complain -> complaint
report -> report
admit -> admission
deny -> denial
explain -> explanation

For example:

Patty claimed that she had been knocked over, but nobody believed her claim.

Complete the sentences by writing a suitable verb or noun.

8. Reporting verbs with -ing.

Some of the verbs we have been looking at also take -ing. For example:

She admitted	stealing the money.
She denied She reported	finding some money.

But not:

She claimed finding some money.
She explained finding some money.

Choose the best way of completing these sentences. Sometimes both possibilities are correct.