COMPLETE PARAGRAPHS BY FILLING IN THE BLANKS WITH SUITABLE PREPOSITIONS

Exercise 2 : Complete paragraphs by filling in the blanks with suitable prepositions.

a. George Washington was born ……….Virginia …………..1732.

………….. the American Revolutionary War ( ……….1775 and 1783) he was the Commander-in-Chief

………….the American forces.

Washington played an important role ………..the founding …………..the United States. He became the

first President ………….the United States. He was President ……….1789 …………1797. George

Washington died ………….the age …………67, ………..the 14th ………….December 1799. The capital

……….the United States and one federal state are named ………George Washington.

b. Henry Ford was born ………the 30th …………..July 1863. He made his first car, the Quadricycle,

……….June 1896. …………. 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company. Modern mass production

………..cars was developed …………him …………..1913. Ford's Model T could then be assembled

…………just 93 minutes. …………..1927, 15 million Model T cars had been manufactured …………

the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford became one …………the richest and best-known people

…………..the world.

c. The first McDonald’s restaurant was opened ……….Dick and Mac McDonald ………the 15th

………..May 1940. The best selling products ………..their restaurant were hamburgers. So the

McDonald brothers thought ……….a way to produce hamburgers more quickly. This was introduced

……..1948 and became known ……….the Speedee Service System. The first franchised McDonald’s

restaurant was opened …………1953, and today you can find McDonald’s restaurants ………….more

than 100 countries. The meats …………..the burgers vary …………..the culture ……….the

country.Franchisees and future managers …………McDonald’s restaurants are trained ………

Hamburger University, which is located ……….Oak Brook, a suburb ………Chicago.

McDonalds is also known …………its sponsorship …………..various international sport events.

Date of preparation : 19 / 04 / 09