Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8 - Behind bars for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Can you remember which prepositions were used with the nouns in this sentence from the radio feature? What kinds of words follow the prepositions (e.g. adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, etc.)?

Answer

  1. with
  2. on
  3. to

Prepositions are followed by nouns or the -ing form of a verb (which is a gerund – technically a noun).