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A preposition shows what one noun or pronoun has to do with another.

A preposition shows what one noun or pronoun has to do with another.

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Prepositions Gymnase du Bugnon CD 2012- And <strong>what</strong> about a trip _____ Twickenham again? _______ bus? So you can remember the good olddays? After all2. Once upon a time in space: fill in the gaps <strong>with</strong> a <strong>preposition</strong>.Above behind close <strong>to</strong> from in (3x) in the middle of insidein<strong>to</strong> (2x) on (2x) through <strong>to</strong> (2x) underSomewhere over the rainbow, Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 12 th 2015My name is Speak. I was b<strong>or</strong>n ____ England, in 1965. I’m the captain of this spaceship. I’ve been lost____ space f<strong>or</strong> two weeks. I want <strong>to</strong> tell you my st<strong>or</strong>y bef<strong>or</strong>e dying. I <strong>do</strong>n’t think we can go back ____the Earth station. We are going nowhere, I’m afraid.Perhaps, I should have learnt <strong>to</strong> navigate bef<strong>or</strong>e accepting this mission. But it’s <strong>to</strong>o late now. We arecoming ___ the Moon but we were supposed <strong>to</strong> go ____ Mars.Everything started three weeks ago. We were ____ a mete<strong>or</strong>ite st<strong>or</strong>m. My second commandant keptsaying: “Be careful ___ your left, a mete<strong>or</strong> your left I said your left! your left!! The other side!...Quick!... Oh my God!” By criticizing me, he embarrassed me a lot and I lost my confidence. He hadsome difficulty in understanding me.“Could you shut up while going _____ the mete<strong>or</strong>ite field!” Navigating <strong>with</strong> po<strong>or</strong> visibility on a busycelestial road may be dangerous. I want you <strong>to</strong> keep cool. You can sing if you want <strong>to</strong> since I f<strong>or</strong>got myradio”, I said. He insisted on taking the controls. He did not like my navigating. I was so irritated that Isat ____ him, I just wanted <strong>to</strong> see his back. I pretended not <strong>to</strong> care about this trip. You can’t trustsome<strong>one</strong> who puts sweets ____ his ears. “Do you mind me having a cigarette? –A cigarette? Are youcrazy? Smoking is strictly f<strong>or</strong>bidden!”I put an ashtray ___ the table, ___ my football magazine. I lit my cigarette. Soon, it started <strong>to</strong> raininside, because the smoke alarm ___ our heads set off the sprinklers. We started <strong>to</strong> run around. Weneeded <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p that. I pressed a but<strong>to</strong>n and we heard: “Mind the <strong>do</strong><strong>or</strong>, you have started the au<strong>to</strong>matic<strong>do</strong><strong>or</strong> opening system. Are you sure you want <strong>to</strong> go outside?”On hearing the startling an<strong>noun</strong>cement, my second in command fainted. I screamed “Oh God!” and Iheard: “Do<strong>or</strong> opening impossible. Chewing-gum ___ the opening system.” We were almost saved, but If<strong>or</strong>got the mete<strong>or</strong>ites and bef<strong>or</strong>e I could <strong>do</strong> anything, we crashed! Since then, we have been stuck ____a mete<strong>or</strong>ite. I can’t operate the vessel anym<strong>or</strong>e. The mete<strong>or</strong>ite is now in control of our movements. Ihave got used <strong>to</strong> going where it wants. My second in command went ____ a coma. I put him ___ thetable. We have nothing left <strong>to</strong> eat, there is only <strong>one</strong> tin of c<strong>or</strong>ned beef left. I want the w<strong>or</strong>ld <strong>to</strong> know <strong>what</strong>happened. I can’t s<strong>to</strong>p thinking about my future fame.5

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