Answer — Exercise 5
9.1·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook
Question
- Complete the news stories by adding the dependent prepositions for, from, with or of to the verbs in bold. The preposition don’t always follow the verbs immediately.
- Read the stories again. Why do you think the man was released?
Answer
a)
- charged with
- suspect 48-year-old Bill Haller of
- accuse Haller of
- rescue the driver from
- thanked the prisoner for
- saving the driver (who by coincidence is the mayor's son) from
- cleared of
- arrested another suspect for
- apologised to Haller for
- criticising the police for
- blamed an ambitious senior police officer for
b)
Because he saved the mayor's son.