Prepositions & Pronouns

The body depends in food as its primary source of energy.

• depends

• in

• as

• its

Exercise in swimming pools is particularly helpful because the buoyant water effect.

• in

• particularly

• because

• water effect

The 1980 explosion of ----- the first volcanic eruption in the continental United States in over 60 years.

• Mount St. Helens

• was Mount St. Helens

• it was Mount St. Helens

• Mount St. Helens was

One type of Australian frog lays up to 25 eggs at a time and then swallows they for protection.

• up to

• at a time

• they

• protection

On 1821, Emma Willard officially opened the doors of the first school in the United States to offer college-level courses for women.

• on

• officially

• in

• for

The Cro-Magnons entered the area that is today Europe and quickly eliminated or absorbed theirs Neanderthal predecessors.

• that is

• quickly

• theirs

• predecessors

The first gummed postage stamps were issued at New York City in 1842.

• the

• were

• at

• in

The common octopus lives lonely, in a den just big enough for their body.

• lonely

• in

• big enough

• their

Early printers arranged type into ----- a small, flat composing stick.

• words

• are words on

• words on

• the words are on

Linguistic conflicts due divided ethnic and national loyalties can be bitter and violent.

• due

• loyalties

• can be

• and