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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education

Question

The pairs of sentences are missing the same preposition. Decide which preposition is missing and add it to both sentences in the correct place.

Answer

  1. a) hanging out b) found out
  2. a) soldiered on b) carry on
  3. a) crack down on b) slow down
  4. a) poring over b) talk it over
  5. a) stand around b) mess around
  6. a) put away these dishes / put these dishes away b) blown away
  7. a) speed up b) jazz up
  8. a) pension me off b) called off
  9. a) brings back b) think back
  10. a) stands out b) speak out