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👉 Question 01 :
More than 70% of the commuters there travel ___ bus every day!(Mais de 70% dos passageiros lá ,viajam de ônibus todos os dias!)
(a) in
(b) at
(c) on
(d) by
• Resposta e Comentários: A preposition "by" é parte integrante da Prepositional Phrase "by bus".
• More than 70% of the commuters there travel by bus every day!
(Mais de 70% dos passageiros lá ,viajam de ônibus todos os dias!)
• Pay attention: Meio de transporte é precedido de BY, com exceção de FOOT que deverá ser precedido de ON.
👉 Question 02 :
Instead of going to the concert, he stays ___ home.(Em vez de ir ao concerto, fica em casa)
(a) in
(b) at
(c) on
(d) off
• Resposta e Comentários: A preposition "at" é parte integrante da Prepositional Phrase "at home".
👉 Question 03 :
I've always dreamt ____ climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(a) over
(b) about
(c) of
(d) on
• Resposta e Comentários: A preposition "of" é parte integrante do Phrasal Verb "dream of".
• "to dream of" means imagine something that you would like to happen.
• Contextualmente, o phrasal verb adequado é "dreamt of"(DrímTóv).
👉 Question 04 :
I've always dreamt ____ climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(a) over
(b) about
(c) of
(d) on
• Resposta e Comentários: A preposition "of" é parte integrante do Phrasal Verb "dream of".
• When someone thinks about a situation that they would like to happen, you can say that they "dream of having something"(sonha em ter algo) or "dream of doing something"(sonha em fazer algo.).
• Contextualmente, o phrasal verb adequado é "dreamt of" ou "dreamed of" que transmite um uso metafórico do verbo sonhar.
• I've always dreamt of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.(Sempre sonhei em escalar o Monte. Kilimanjaro.)
• Other examples:
• I've dreamt of buying a house.(Sonho em comprar uma casa.)
• I've always dreamed of becoming a writer.(Sempre sonhei em ser escritora.)
• I dream of one day working for myself and not having a boss.(Sonho um dia trabalhar para mim e não ter patrão.)
• He dreamt of having a car.(Ele sonhava em ter um carro.)
👉 Question 05 :
The wedding coincides ___ my friend's graduation.
(a) on
(b) for
(c) with
(d) by
• Resposta e Comentários:
• When you talk about two things that coincide it, basically means that, they happen at the same time, they occur at the same time , and so, you would say this thing coincides with this other thing. You use "to coincide with" when you're talking about two things happening at the same time.
👉 Question 06 :
My grandfather suffers ___ amnesia.
(A) by
(B) ever
(C) on
(D) from
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Amnesia is a condition that, I think, it happens more often in people when they get older and what it means is they just start to forget their memory starts to go and if it happens regularly if it happens often then a doctor may diagnose this person and say yes they suffer ... amnesia.
• If you suffer from something it means that you are experiencing the effects of this thing which is typically bad.
• So, If you suffer from 'some kind of condition', you suffer from a disease and you would use that preposition to suffer from.
👉 Question 07 :
She winked _____ me from across the room.
(A) by
(B) in
(C) at
(D) on
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which preposition best completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is at.
• to wink at someone means close one eye briefly in order signal something.
• When you wink at someone, you signal something. In this case, you're showing some kind of affection or like there's some kind of secret when you're sending that signal and you wink at someone.
👉 Question 07 :
Hey, whetever you do, don't bring __ his recent divorce!
(A) up
(B) in
(C) at
(D) on
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which preposition completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is up.
• If we are at some kind of event our party, you and I are at this party and we see this person over here and tell you: - hey hey, wherever you do, don't bring up his recente divorce.
• to bring something up, it's a phrasal verb and it means you're introducing something into the conversation.
• to bring something up - to introduce something into a conversation.
• You're just talking about some topic , you bring it up
• It may often be used in a context if somebody's saying hey, don't bring this up, don't talk about this topic, this issue, perhaps it's a little sensitive and some people don't want to talk about this thing and in that case, you'd say, hey don't bring it up.
👉 Question 08 :
Cheating in professional athletics stems ____ a fierce desire to win at any cost!
(A) of
(B) in
(C) from
(D) on
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which preposition completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is from.
• Notice the question that put in there for you, it's a little bit of current events, I don't know if many of you are watch baseball or keep up with baseball but there have been some problem with cheating and I could say well in these problems its stems from a fierce desire to win at any cost.
• If you say to stem from, it's saying that something is caused by something else. So 'the cheating' instead of saying
'the cheating' is caused by a desire to win, I could just say, the cheating stems from a desire to win. It means the same thing something stems from something else, it originates from this thing or it is caused by this, at this thing to stem from.
👉 Question 09 :
Breakfast consists ____ eggs, pancakes, and coffee!
(A) of
(B) in
(C) from
(D) on
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which preposition completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is of.
• The verb is 'consist of', breakfast consists of eggs, pancakes, and coffee!
• 'to consist of something' it means that it is made up of specific things and often you that is when you list those things that it consist of and then you talk about those things that are that make this then up egss, pancakes.
👉 Question 10 :
She apologized __ her boyfriend __ lying.
(A) from, of
(B) to, of.
(C) for, to.
(D) to, for.
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which prepositions completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is D: to, for.
• to apologize to someone, to apologize for something.
• When you you're talking about the verb to apologize you would apologize to someone, a person, and would apologize for something, something that happened.
• She apologized to her friend for lying.
• When you apologize, you just say, you're sorry!
• This is a great example of a verb that can be followed by two prepositions, two different prepositions.
• It depends on what you're trying to say: apologize to someone, apologize for something, something that happended.
👉 Question 11 :
He argued __ his boss __ having to work over the weekend.
(A) from, of
(B) to, of.
(C) for, to.
(D) to, for.
• Resposta e Comentários:
• Which prepositions completes that sentence?
• The correct answer is D: to, for.
• Again, you have one verb, and I want you to, tell me the two prepositions that can be follow this verb.
• There actually I think , there may be three different prepositions that you can use.
• He argued with his boss about having to work over the weekend.
• I think you could also say, He argued with his boss for having to work over the weekend.
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