Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.

a) Harry was told that fishing in the lake was against/by/over the law.

b) Catherine led a secret life for/in/of crime before she was caught.

c) Having trouble with your phone? Send at/for/to Fix-a-phone!

d) I regret to tell you that you are for/in/under arrest.

e) I only attacked the young man from/in/with self-defence.

f) David was often at/in/with trouble with the police when he was young.

g) The robbers' car was hidden below/by/from sight behind the bank.

h) The kidnappers have been caught, and the child is no longer at/in/on danger,

i) Tony was caught by a policeman who was off/out/away from duty and cycling to work.

j) The thieves took the wrong painting by/in/under mistake

k) The suspicious manager left the safe unlocked from/on/with purpose.

l) The robbers met to plan the bank raid from/in/with secret.

4 Complete each sentence by putting one or two suitable prepositions in each space.

a) The new law on dropping litter comes ____ force next month.

b) Ann was released from prison and now she is ____ probation.

c) Local students have been banned ____ taking part in the demonstration.

d) The police have charged her ____ driving without due care and attention.

e) Local people have called for an investigation ____ the causes of the fire.

f) Football fans went ____ the rampage in the centre of Norwich last night.

g) She claimed that the selling of habit-forming drugs was getting ____ control.

h) The car left the road and crashed ____ a tree.

i) Several guests at the hotel were robbed ____ jewellery and money.

j) David, 19, has been sleeping ____ a park bench for the past six months.

5 MISTAKE CORRECTION. Read the story. Some of the lines are correct and some have one extra word which should not be there. Decide which lines have an extra word and correct them. In the box against each line put either a tick (if the line is OK) or the word which should not be there.

	Jim Crawford had just been left his car in a car
	park near his office when he was approached by a
	mugger with a knife who demanded of his wallet. Jim
	gave to him his wallet and the man ran off. Jim
	decided to go to the nearest police station and
	report the crime, but just as he was walking towards
	it he was being stopped by a second man. This man
	also wanted Jim's wallet, but Jim tried to explain
	him that it had already been stolen. The second
	mugger told him to hand them over his shoes and
	socks. Jim did it as he was told and then, when the
	man had gone, walked into the police station. The
	police were absolutely surprised to see him without
	any shoes and socks and questioned him about what
	had happened. After having giving descriptions of
	the two men, Jim was driven back to his car. But,
	to his horror, when they got to the place at where
	he had left it, he discovered that it had been stolen.

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