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Busy prepositions
Downloadable worksheets:
A REALLY BUSY DAY
Level:
intermediate
Age:
12-100
Downloads:
249
Garfield�s busy day - prepositions minibook (story) *editable
Level:
elementary
Age:
8-12
Downloads:
197
A busy office
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-12
Downloads:
175
Mr Busy sends a present (PREPOSITIONS)
Level:
intermediate
Age:
13-17
Downloads:
112
Busy Beavers: In On Under song
Level:
elementary
Age:
9-100
Downloads:
17
"A Busy Week": Talking About Time
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-17
Downloads:
5
BUSY PREPOSITIONS
Listen to this song about how important prepositions are and fill in the gaps with the correct word:
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Prepositions. Nine or ten of them do most all of the work. OF� ON� TO� WITH� IN FROM� BY� FOR� AT� OVER� ACROSS
And many others do their jobs, which is simply to
�their noun or pronoun object to some other words in the sentence.
Busy
s, if you please.
"On the top is where you are!" Top relates to where you are.
"With a friend you�ll travel far!", with a friend you�ll go.
"If you try to know that you can
�over the
! Over the�
is where you can
.
Busy prepositions , always on the go like a bunch of busy bees, floating pollen on the breeze, buzzing over the meadows,
Beyond� the forest, through the trees, into the beehive. Busy, busy
s. IN�, TO , BEYOND, OVER, ON, THROUGH!
Busy prepositions always out in front. On the edges, in the crack, "Round the
, from the back, in between the action.
Stating clearly to your satisfaction, the location and
. Prepositions give specific
.
Though little words they are, they never stand alone gathering words behind them,
You soon will see how they have grown into a
; a prepositional phrase with a noun, or at least a pronoun, bringing up the rear.
A little phrase of two or three or four or more words. Prepositions! Attention! Forward!
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Busy prepositions always on the march like a horde of soldiers ants, inching bravely forward on the slimmest chance that they might better their positions.
Busy , busy� prepositions . In the air, on the ground, everywhere. The�
sank lower in the west. "in the west it sank" and it will rise in the
�
and will bring the light of day; we say the
�comes up in the
�every day! Busy prepositions, busy, busy , busy!
On the top is where you are!on the top.
If you try you know that you can fly! Fly where? over the
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!