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<exercise subhead="dragdrop"><media type="none"/><head><title>Prepositions exercises</title><task>Use the arrow to choose the best word or  phrase for each space.</task></head><body>
<item desc="1"><text>Certain areas had been ceded </text><choice_g><choice>about</choice><choice>as</choice><choice correct="y">by</choice><choice>in</choice></choice_g><text> treaty.</text></item>
<item desc="2"><text>It's a trivial matter and not worth fighting </text><choice_g><choice correct="y">about</choice><choice>as</choice><choice>behind</choice><choice>through</choice></choice_g><text>.</text></item>
<item desc="3"><text>She was fuming </text><choice_g><choice>across</choice><choice>around</choice><choice>from</choice><choice correct="y">with</choice></choice_g><text> rage.</text></item>
<item desc="4"><text>The threat is not being treated </text><choice_g><choice>on</choice><choice>over</choice><choice>to</choice><choice correct="y">with</choice></choice_g><text> the gravity it deserves.</text></item>
<item desc="5"><text>We danced </text><choice_g><choice>around</choice><choice>from</choice><choice>onto</choice><choice correct="y">to</choice></choice_g><text> the music.</text></item>
<item desc="6"><text>Do not do that, I beg </text><choice_g><choice>against</choice><choice>at</choice><choice correct="y">of</choice><choice>under</choice></choice_g><text> you.</text></item>
<item desc="7"><text>The kids made up a rhyme </text><choice_g><choice correct="y">about</choice><choice>across</choice><choice>as</choice><choice>on</choice></choice_g><text> a frog.</text></item>
<item desc="8"><text>This was the cue </text><choice_g><choice>as</choice><choice correct="y">for</choice><choice>of</choice><choice>toward</choice></choice_g><text> him to come into the room.</text></item>
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