Using Prepositions Exercises - English to Spanish Short explanation in Spanish; all exercises in English The book Using Prepositions is an exercise book to complement Guide to Prepositions. We find that, very often, prepositions in English do not correspond to the Spanish ones. Therefore, students find it very difficult to know exactly which preposition to use in a given sentence.
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
Most of the book focuses on the revision phase of the writing process: how the writer molds and reshapes paragraphs, sentences, words, and even spelling and punctuation to make the language reflect exactly what the writer wants to communicate to a particular audience.
The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations
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