The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.1 - Ahead of their time for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education
Question
- Look at the underlined dependent prepositions in the texts. Write them in the table in the Active grammar box.
- Look at the phrases from the box below. Add them to the table in the Active grammar box.
- Match definitions a-f to phrases from the Active grammar box.
Answer
a) - b)
verb + preposition
- range from ... (to ...)
- work on..
- attribute to ...
- hope for ...
- succeed in ...
- improve on ..
- specialise in ...
verb + object + preposition
- draw inspiration from ...
- made contributions to ...
- devote your life to ...
- make observations about ...
noun + preposition
- in the fields of ...
- ideas for / of ...
- the development of ...
- a solution to ...
- admiration for ...
- the quality of ...
adjective + preposition
- (be) famous for ...
- (be) immersed in ...
- (be) obsessed with ...
prepositional phrases (beginning with a preposition)
- in a time of ...
- on one occasion ..
- of all time ...
- in later life ...
- in recognition of
c)
- devote your life to
- attribute to
- (be) obsessed with
- (be) immersed in
- improve on
- admiration for