Prepositions

Exercise

Once (1)_________ a time, there was a man who was married (2)_________ a beautiful, young woman. The man was an alcoholic who always lustes (3)_________ sex. But often his wife did not want to make love (4)_________ him. As a consequence he took a kick (5)_________ her till she keeled (6)_________ a dead faint. The man never meditated (7)_________ what he had done there and kept (8)_________ being violent. Knowing (9)_________ the violent husband, the woman’s best friend loathed him. She had always tried (10)_________ persuade her friend (11)_________ leave him but the poor woman did not want to listen (12)_________ this advice. After multiple conversations (13)_________ that subject, the friend finally convinced the abused wife, to migrate (14)_________ another country. Over there she pretended to be somebody else (15)_________ changing her entire identity because she didn’t want to be found (16)_________ her husband.

Fill in the gaps:

about – about – about/on – at – by - by – for – of – on – on – over into – to – to – to – to – upon - with – with

Solution:

1 upon 2 to 3 for 4 with 5 at 6 over into 7 on 8 on 9 about 10 to 11 to 12 to 13 about/on 14 to 15 by 16 by

The exprssions:

1 upon a time – vor langer Zeit
2 (to) be married to sb – mit jemandem verheiratet sein
3 (to) lust for sth – Gier nach etwas haben
4 (to) make love with sb – mit jemandem ins Bett gehen
5 (to) take a kick at sb – jemanden treten
6 (to) keel over into a dead faint - in eine tiefe Ohnmacht fallen
7 (to) meditate on sth – über etwas scharf nachdenken
8 (to)keep on doing sth – mit etwas weiter machen
9 (to) know about sth- von etwas wissen
10 (to) try to – etwas versuchen
11 (to) persuade sb to do sth – jemanden dazu überreden etwas zu tun
12 listen to sth / sb – etwas / jemandem zuhören
13 conversations about / on sth – Gespräche über etwas
14 (to) migrate to – umziehen/ -siedeln
15 (to) pretend to be sb. else by doing sth. – sich