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Prepositions & Pronouns

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The body depends in food as its primary source of energy.

a)

depends

b)

in

c)

as

d)

its

2.

Exercise in swimming pools is particularly helpful because the buoyant water effect.

a)

in

b)

particularly

c)

because

d)

water effect

3.

The 1980 explosion of ----- the first volcanic eruption in the continental United States in over 60 years.

a)

Mount St. Helens

b)

was Mount St. Helens

c)

it was Mount St. Helens

d)

Mount St. Helens was

4.

One type of Australian frog lays up to 25 eggs at a time and then swallows they for protection.

a)

up to

b)

at a time

c)

they

d)

protection

5.

On 1821, Emma Willard officially opened the doors of the first school in the United States to offer college-level courses for women.

a)

on

b)

officially

c)

in

d)

for

6.

The Cro-Magnons entered the area that is today Europe and quickly eliminated or absorbed theirs Neanderthal predecessors.

a)

that is

b)

quickly

c)

theirs

d)

predecessors

7.

The first gummed postage stamps were issued at New York City in 1842.

a)

the

b)

were

c)

at

d)

in

8.

The common octopus lives lonely, in a den just big enough for their body.

a)

lonely

b)

in

c)

big enough

d)

their

9.

Early printers arranged type into ----- a small, flat composing stick.

a)

words

b)

are words on

c)

words on

d)

the words are on

10.

Linguistic conflicts due divided ethnic and national loyalties can be bitter and violent.

a)

due

b)

loyalties

c)

can be

d)

and

11.

In 1851, with the publication of her antislavery novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe rocketed to famous.

a)

in

b)

her

c)

rocketed

d)

famous

12.

The Earth's crust is composed of fifteen plates which float on the partially molten layer below they.

a)

crust

b)

of

c)

on

d)

they

13.

When Pierre L'Enfant designed the national capital in 1791, her envisioned a broad boulevard linking the White House and the Capitol.

a)

designed

b)

in

c)

her

d)

and

14.

A hawk swallows it food in large pieces, digests some of it, and regurgitate the rest.

a)

it

b)

large pieces

c)

of it

d)

the rest

15.

Defects occur when liquid helium undergoes a phase transition from its normal to their superfluid phase.

a)

when

b)

undergoes

c)

its

d)

their

16.

The earliest known artworks were made cavemen which used a mixture of clay, chalk, and burned wood and bones.

a)

earliest

b)

cavemen

c)

of

d)

clay

17.

Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died in the very same day, July 4, 1826.

a)

both

b)

died

c)

in

d)

the

18.

----- without a backbone is the Atlantic squid.

a)

For the largest creature

b)

It is the largest creature

c)

The largest creature

d)

The largest creature is

19.

Virginia Dare, the first child born to English parents in the New World, was named after the Virginia Colony where her was born.

a)

the

b)

born

c)

after

d)

her

20.

The flintlock pistol was popular as a weapon in the seventeenth century because they could be fired one-handed by a rider on horseback.

a)

as

b)

they

c)

by

d)

horseback