{"id":977,"date":"2016-01-16T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2016-01-16T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T12:10:08","slug":"common-mistakes-with-prepositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/common-mistakes-with-prepositions\/","title":{"rendered":"Common mistakes with prepositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences.<\/p>\n<p>1. I am going &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) home<br \/>\nb) to home<\/p>\n<p>2. The children have been playing &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>a) for two hours<br \/>\nb) since two hours<\/p>\n<p>3. This table is made &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\na) with food<br \/>\nb) of food<br \/>\nc) from food<\/p>\n<p>4. An ordinary person\u2019s life is different from &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) a celebrity<br \/>\nb) that of a celebrity<br \/>\nc) that of a celebrity\u2019s life<\/p>\n<p>5. He hit me &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>a) by a stick<br \/>\nb) with a stick<\/p>\n<p>6. I want a pen &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>a) to write<br \/>\nb) to write with<\/p>\n<p>7. Hundreds of people &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) died of cholera<br \/>\nb) died from cholera<br \/>\nc) died by cholera<\/p>\n<p>8. India has been independent &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) since 1947<br \/>\nb) from 1947<br \/>\nc) for 1947<\/p>\n<p>9. This book is inferior &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; that book.<\/p>\n<p>a) than<br \/>\nb) to<\/p>\n<p>10. This is different &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a) to that<br \/>\nb) from that<br \/>\nc) than that<\/p>\n<p>11. She resembles &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>a) her mother<\/p>\n<p>b) to her mother<\/p>\n<p>12. He wrote &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>a) me<br \/>\nb) to me<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. I am <strong>going home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The children have been playing <strong>for two hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. This table is <strong>made of food.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. An ordinary person\u2019s life is different from<strong> that of a celebrity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. He hit me <strong>with a stick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6. I want a pen<strong> to write with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7. Hundreds of people<strong> died of\/from cholera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8. India has been independent <strong>since 1947.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. This book is <strong>inferior to that<\/strong> book.<\/p>\n<p>10. This is <strong>different from \/ than that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11. She<strong> resembles her<\/strong> mother.<\/p>\n<p>12. He wrote <strong>to<\/strong> me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete the following sentences. 1. I am going &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; a) home b) to home 2. The children have been playing &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; a) for two hours b) since two hours 3. This table is made&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-mistakes-with-prepositions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}