GRAMMAR CHECK Prepositions of movement
Prepositions of movement tell us how something moves.
yencs
up
g)
h)
down
across
across
out of
through
past
around
8 Complete the text about the hunt for Moby-Dick with the prepositions in the box.
into out of
around around down into
to under under up
past through to
On day one of the hunt, Moby-Dick swims
away a)...through...the water fast.
Ahab takes a harpoon in his hand. But Moby-
Ahab's boat.
Dick swims b).
He comes c)
.suddenly,
and breaks it. Starbuck, on the Pequod, pulls
the water.
everyone d).
On day two, the men hit Moby-Dick with
their harpoons, but he moves his tail
e)
and the sailors fall f)
water again.
On day three, Moby-Dick hits the Pequod
with his head. Ahab's harpoon hits the
white whale. But the harpoon rope goes
to
crazily. The boats break,
the
Ahab's body, and pulls him
into the sea. So he dies.
under
telimo
into
j)..
k)
The Pequod goes i)
, and
everyone on her dies, too. But Ishmael jumps
the ocean. He swims over
Queequeg's coffin, and
gets on it.
Two days later, the Rachel is sailing
1).
when Captain Gardiner
sees Ishmael on the coffin. He takes the
young sailor on board. Then the Rachel sails
the ocean, back
m)
n)
America.

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