1. Prepositions (exercises)
Mladen Marinac
Polytechnic of Rijeka

2. Put at, on or in.
a) Mozart was born in Salzburg _______ b) I haven’t seen Kate for a few days. I last saw her ________ Tuesday. c) The price of electricity is going up _______ October. d) I’ve been invited to a wedding ________ 14 February. e) Hurry up! We’ve got to go ________ 5 minutes. f) I’m busy just now but I’ll be with you ________ a moment. g) Jenny’s brother is an engineer, but he’s out of work _____ the moment. h) There are usually a lot of parties ________ New Year’s Eve. i) I hope the weather will be nice ________ the weekend. j) _______ Saturday night I went to bed ________ 11 o’clock.

3. Complete the sentences
Complete the sentences. Use in, at or on + one of the following: the window your coffee the mountains that tree my guitar the river the island the next garage
1 Look at those people swimming _________. in the river 2 One of the strings ___________ is broken. on my guitar 3 There’s something wrong with the car. We’d better stop __________. at the next garage 4 Would you like sugar ________________? in your coffee 5 The leaves ________________ are a beautiful colour. on that tree 6 Last year we had a wonderful skiing holiday _____________. in the mountains 7 There’s nobody living __________________. It’s uninhabited. on the island 8 He spends most of the day sitting ____________ and looking outside. at the window