Are the prepositions in these sentences used correctly or incorrectly? Here and there a preposition may be missing.
- I can’t call you right now. I am on a meeting.
- John is fixing something at the roof.
- I am behind the third vaccination.
- Melinda is playing in the garden.
- The plane flew over our house.
- You can hang that portrait right above that cross on the wall over there.
- That bicycle is leaning to the wall.
- Is this elevator going up or down?
- The tourists enjoy the view on top of the mountain.
- After the heavy rain of the past few weeks many streets are under water.
- Try to stay above ground. You’re too young to die.
- Why don’t you come over? By the time you arrive there will be food on the table.
- Could I ask you about a favor?
- I saw it in YouTube.
- In television they said Oswald did it, but they made that bullshit up.
- In communism they used to say: ‘If you’re not stealing at work you are stealing from your family.’
- There’s a ravine close to Kiev where the Germans finished off thousands and thousands of jews.
- Slovaks are all about rituals and appearances. Substance is not on the top of their priority list.
- Take a look on this painting of Picasso. I think you can guess why Hitler considered this to be ‘entartete Kunst’.
- Are you watching at the hockey match or are you studying?
- You have time to evaluate your colleagues by the end of the month.
- Czech tourists tend to get lost on the Tatra mountains.
- We will discuss about your targets today. You have to work harder, because our company is like a family.
- You will not be able to request for psychological support during the time you will be working for our company.
- You can’t expect to understand Dutch television behind ten lessons of Dutch.
- There is no hope with stunningly stupid people. The best way to deal about them is to treat them as if they are intelligent.
- Why do people keep voting power hungry narcissists?
- If something isn’t working in Slovakia just blame it to communism.
- Slovakia is a very safe country as long you don’t forget to take out your shoes when you visit someone in home.
- We can talk about your new blonde secretary over drinks.
- No matter how many times you explain it to them they will never get it. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot force it for drink.
- Any time a student enthusiastically proclaims he will definitely work his butt off you know that student will quit after about three or four lessons.
- Any time a student asks for a discount you know that student will turn out to be completely unreliable.
- Apart from slogans, platitudes, promises, word choice and explanations as to why something is not possible there is no essential difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.
- You can always count on Joe to accidentally say the truth.
- What have the Romans really done for us?
- Kamala is not the sharpest knife on the drawer.
- Nancy cannot walk through a wall, but she can bullshit her way out of a press conference.
- Unless you are to the manor born you are sure to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.
- What is inside this box is none of your concern, but if you agree to take the box to the address written to this paper you will receive 25,000 euro.