ACT Prep: Prepositions

For their twenty-fifth anniversary, Louie's parents came up with a brilliant plan by celebrating with their family.

• NO CHANGE

• about

• of

• for

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

Since the beginning of time, people from all cultures have attached different meanings to the fables they tell their children. These stories teach about everything from social etiquette to morals to falling in love.

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• meanings, which they connected to

• meanings, to which they related to

• meanings, because of

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

While he searched hours and hours for his missing yearbook, he found his grandparents' love letters from during the war. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVERS WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE?

• came upon

• came across

• discovered

• found upon

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CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

In the 1960s, the government proposed unfair voting requirements for African Americans in Selma, Alabama, by which Martin Luther King Jr. marched thousands of people in protest.

• NO CHANGE

• which

• into which

• since

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1A

After my father finally declared he was lost, he merged toward the exit ramp to leave the interstate. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVES WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE?

• over toward

• over

• onto

• to get on

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

Troy attempted to broaden his culinary skills when learning how to bake the perfect souffle'.

• NO CHANGE

• learning

• having learned

• by learning

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Goya's "The Disasters of War" prints were based by the actions of the French military toward the Spanish people.

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• on

• for

• to

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

My mother's views were often supported when my father, who took pride in his wife's intelligence and wisdom.

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• by

• while

• as if

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

Rotwin, the ship's cynical captain, entered into a bet after the ship's fate - and the men's lives - in the storm.

• NO CHANGE

• at

• on

• of

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

On Thanksgiving, I sat across the table as my two little cousins and my brother Sam.

• NO CHANGE

• to

• at

• from

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E