SKILL 2 OBJECT OF PREPOSITION

LIST OF COMMON PREPOSITIONS

Above Between Of Upon
About By Off With
Across Considering On Within
After Close to On behalf of Without
Against Down Out of
Along During Outside
Among Except Over
Around From Past
At Following Since
Because of For Through
Before Inside To
Behind Instead of Toward
Below Into Under
Beneath Like Until
Beside Near Up

OBJECT OF PEPOSITION CAN BE NOUN OR PRONOUN (Me, you, us, them, her,
him, it)

 With his students and his family within his house, the teacher started making jokes

 After his exams tom will take a trip by boat

 With his friend ………….. found the movie theater

a. Has
b. He
c. Later
d. When
 In china from the fifth century, the woodcut had been use for applying patterns to

textiles
 At ground level is produced by a photochemical interaction pf the sun with gases

such as nitrogen oxides and unburnt hydrocarbons.

 For a president’s visit a wide central hall from one and of the building on the other ot

has four large cases of souvenirs from some places

 In 1848, men from the Miwok and other Indian tribes ……. Half of the 4000 miners

working in the Gold Country of California.

a. And made up
b. Which they made up
c. To make up
d. Made up
 SKILL 3 APPOSITIVE
APPOSITIVE : Nouns to give additional information; are
NOT subject

1. The best student in the class, Budi got As on all of his exams

2. Budi, the best student in the class, got As on all of his exams

Subject, Appositive, predivate

Subject, Appositive, predicate

Phrases
Conj + S + P
Ving / V3

Appositive Subject + Predicate

3. …………, Gorge, is attending the lecture.

A. Right now B. Happily

C. Because of the time D. My Friend

4. …………, Sarah, rarely misses her basketball shots

A. An excellent basketball player B. Sarah is an excellent basketball

player
C. An excellent basketball player is D. Her excellent basketball play

5. The Nationa Road, ……………. At the first highway in North America,

connected the East Coast to the Ohio Valley

A. It wa one B. Was one

C. One D. It
CONTOH LATIHAN
1. Boston, the hub of historic new England, it is the capital of Massachusetts and the

largest city

2. The Dambovita Rive, a tributary of the Danube, running through Bucharest

3. The son of the previous owner, the new owner is undertaking some

fairly broad changes in management policy.

4. Last semester, a friend, graduated cum laude from the university.

skill 4 present participale
(Ving)