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Prepositions

This exercise will make you more aware of the prepositions that occur with common phrasal verbs and adjectives. Below is a list of the prepositions you will need for this exercise. Your task is to read the sentences that are about the characters in The Talking Horse and select the preposition that goes with the phrasal verb or the adjective that the preposition follows.

about around at between by in of to

l. In this story Joy's mother remarried, and the new stepfather didn't care him.

2. He convinced his wife that her son would be well taken care in his sister's house.

3. Joy's mother reluctantly agreed let her son go to the sister's house.

4. The sister, Louva, was vulgar, stinky, and ugly. Joy did not feel comfortable her.

5. Louva yelled Joy, shouting a shrill voice.

6. Whenever Joy was working in the stable, he would complain Louva's cruel treatment.

7. Gradually, Joy and Joshua became attached each other. There was a special feeling them.

8. When Louva was mean to Joshua, Joy told the horse not to worry it because the woman was crazy.

9. Joy was astonishedThe adjectives astonished and surprised can be followed by at or by. We ususally use astonished at somebody but astonished by something.
the horse when he actually spoke him.

10. Louva suspected there was something going on Joy and Joshua.

11. When Louva continued to hear the two of them talking each other, she thought Joy was possessed a demon and locked him up.

12. Joshua was very excited racing away from the farm with Joy on his back.