Insert a preposition where necessary.

Here are the solutions to the questions:

9) Insert a preposition where necessary.

• a) He asked his father for money.
• b) Most people in Africa depend on agriculture.
• c) They succeeded in escaping from the burning house.
• d) She gave him the wrong book by mistake.

10) Put the regular verbs below in the column which corresponds with their past tense sound of the last 'ed'.

/t/	/d/	/id/
worked	judged	started
laughed		visited

11) Choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank space in each of the following sentences.

• a) He ate the whole cake by himself.
• b) Is everyone ready to begin the exam?
• c) You must sign each of these letters.
• d) I've never met anyone I like more than Jonathan.
• e) I've been working hard all day and now I'm exhausted.

12) Choose the best option from the given alternatives to fill the blank space in each of the following sentences.

• a) i) No matter how hard she tried, her boss always complained about her work.
• b) He consistently refused to take his medicine and v) consequently his illness has gotten worse.