This document provides a series of 15 multiple choice questions testing understanding of prepositional phrases. The questions cover a range of topics but require identifying the correct preposition to complete sentences about crime rates, patent manager responsibilities, web surfing audiences, meteorite patterns, stain removal, defoliant use, chemical reactions, mammal evolution, ant roads, music appreciation, plant composition, weather forecasting, watch manufacturing, shopping in bazaars, and convent establishment.

1. SIMPLE SENTENCE: PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
1. In __________, the crime rate has begun to drop due to neighbourhood
watch programs.
a. the past few years
b. a few years age
c. few yearss
d. a few years since
e. years few
2. Three responsibilities ________ are to search out, identify, and assess
patentable inventions and technologies.
a. to a patent manager
b. with a patent manager
c. on a patent manager
d. of a patent manager
e. if a patent manager
3. Disappointingly, many software companies have discovered a limited
audience for ________ from the couch.
a. Web surfing
b. Web to surf
c. to Web surf
d. Web surfs
4. Shooting stars, otherwise known as meteorites, often fall to Earth in a
pattern dictated ________ and Earth rotation.
a. ato solar winds
b. by solar winds
c. on solar winds
d. which solar winds
5. Ink stains, commonly regarded __________ difficult stains to remove,
will not succumb to the usual array of detergents and cleaners found in
supermarkets.
a. as the most

2. b. to the most
c. in the most
d. through the most
6. Examples of selective use __________ are found in commercial leaf
removal prior to harvest in the cotton and sugar beet industries.
a. of defoliants
b. by defoliants
c. in defoliants
d. through defoliants
7. Ethyl cyanoacetate is derived __________ of an alkali cyanide and
chloroacetic ethyl ester.
a. at the reaction
b. from the reaction
c. to the reaction
d. above the reaction
8. On the second level of mammalian evolution, that __________
mammals or marsupials, the eggs are practically yolkless.
a. to the pouching
b. of the pouched
c. in the pouches
d. by the pouch able
9. Foraging ants make a network __________ around the nest .
a. inside roads
b. by roads
c. of roads
d. to roading

3. 10. __________ its richness and varied colouring, Schubert 's Symphony
in C has enjoyed a deserved reputation among classical music lovers.
a. Renowning by
b. Renownable to
c. Renowned for
d. Renowning with
11. The calyx and the corona buttercups were the first to know their own mind and
to __________ their composition.
a. settle in
b. settle with
c. settle to
d. settle upon
12. To further the important study of solar radiation ___________ long range
weather forecasting, the organization appropriated over ten percent of its
budget.
a. as relation with
b. for relation on
c. by relation of
d. in relation to
13. Each part of the Hamilton watch is fashioned __________ the minutest
precision and perfection of finish.
a. At
b. Around
c. To
d. as
14. Once in China, the tourist may shop in quaint bazaars ___________ silks,
laces, and jade.
a. In

4. b. For
c. On
d. At
15. The first convent was established __________ 1529, only eight years after the
Spanish conquest of the region.
a. in Oaxaca in
b. at Oaxaca on
c. on Oaxaca by
d. to Oaxaca since
Answers: A , D, A , B, A , A, B , B, C , C, D, D, B, A