Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.
Mixed practice 1
Insert the correct prepositions and postpositions where necessary.
I. She's very bright and quick! She learned to use a computer no time.
2. A week after the wall was repainted it was covered graffiti again.
3. Some people thought that the object the sky was a UFO bringing visitors another planet, but it turned to be a small plane.
4. The lift has broken again, but it doesn't matter. We live the first floor.
5. The success or failure a new product depends, a large degree, the ingenuity the advertising campaign.
6. I'm writing to complain the way the staff behaved your shop.
7. She was involved the school orchestra and was responsible setting the German Society. She was always very popular her fellow pupils.
8. Children brought big cites cope better the streses urban life.
9. The bad weather meant that the bridge wasn't completed time.
10. I told him he couldn't hope to catch a big fish a small rod like that, but he jnsisted trying.
11. When I got the station I saw it was crowded people waiting trains delayed because bad weather.
12. I was woken the middle the night a helicopter going overhead.
13. Jane cared her disabled mother until her death last year.
14. He doesn't sem to care his appearance all. He always looks untidy.
15. I know it's unkind to laugh her, but her new hairstyle looks so funny.
16. We used to see each other regularly, but I haven't heard her
last year.
17. The concert was given the people I had never heard .
18. I've always wanted to grow my hair, but my parents don't approve long hair.
19. I'm thinking advertising someone to take care my garden.
20. A monkey was sitting the tree throwing nuts anyone who walked past.
21. I think you should get rid this old washing machine. It's not just date - it should be in a museum!