Complete the following sentences using the most appropriate option.
1Look in the cupboard ............... the sink.
Wrong!
Use "under" when something is directly lower than and partly covered by another object.
2There is a mouse ............... the piano.
Wrong!
Use "under" for something directly lower than another object.
3The car won’t ............... again this morning.
Wrong!
Use "start" for a car or machine beginning to work.
4Who is that big guy sitting ............... Jane?
Wrong!
Use "beside" to mean next to someone or something.
5I don’t like that skirt; ..............., it is too expensive.
Wrong!
Use "besides" to add another reason or point.
6There were ............... twenty people at the lecture.
Wrong!
Use "under" to mean less than a number or amount.
7This is a nice place. Thanks for ............... me here.
Wrong!
Use "bringing" when the movement is toward the place where the speaker is now.
8I killed the spider ............... a shoe.
Wrong!
Use "with" to show the tool used to do something.
Answers
- Look in the cupboard under the sink.
- There is a mouse under the piano.
- The car won’t start again this morning.
- Who is that big guy sitting beside Jane?
- I don’t like that skirt; besides, it is too expensive.
- There were under twenty people at the lecture.
- This is a nice place. Thanks for bringing me here.
- I killed the spider with a shoe.