One Foggy Night — Part 1
Grammar: Prepositions — Interactive exercise
Replace all the missing prepositions and adverbs from this extract from the story.:
“Let’s follow it…”
“It could be anywhere by now, couldn’t it!”
But Wells was already talking into the radio. “Car PB to base. Suspicious vehicle speeding west along Esplanade, near east Pavillion. Could be the missing Fiesta. We’re following it, but slowly due to fog. Over.”
The mist was patchy; then suddenly, as they drove in front of the Imperial Hotel, it lifted, and a long line of lights stretched out ahead of them, picking out the gentle curve of the Esplanade as far as the harbour. There was no traffic, just cars standing empty at the roadside. Apart from the streetlamps, the only other lights to be seen were in the distance at the harbourside, where a group of cars seemed to be parked at the water’s edge. Bradstock switched on the blue flashing light, and Wells accelerated.
One Foggy Night — Part 2
Prepositions:
Replace all the missing prepositions and adverbs in these extracts from the story.
They could hear the sound of the waves slopping against the foot of the sea wall, fifteen feet
below them.
Bradstock leaned over. “High tide,” he remarked.
“Yeah,” said Wells. “Going out now. Let’s walk along as far as the rocks. There’ll be enough sand by now.”
Bradstock switched on his walkie-talkie. At the end of the Esplanade, narrow concrete steps led
down onto the sand, above the high water mark.
“Smugglers,” said the youth, as Wells cut the cloth from round his mouth. “We were just walking along when we saw this fishing boat coming in through the mist, so we went over to watch; then all these men got off it, without saying a word.
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