25/2/2016 ENGLISH PAGE Mixed Prepositions 18 englishpage.com Home > Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs > Mixed Prepositions 18 Mixed Prepositions 18 MultipleChoice f t g+ p Complete the text below by choosing the correct prepositions, then press "Check" to check your answers. The intense interest aroused the public by what was known the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, view of the worldwide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led my being connected the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months a rather depressing Convalescent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make my mind what to do, when I ran John Cavendish. I had seen very little him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his fortyfive years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed Styles, his mother's place in Essex. An excerpt from "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie Check http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/mixed_prepositions_18.htm 1/2 25/2/2016 ENGLISH PAGE Mixed Prepositions 18 Copyright © 2016 Englishpage.com, All Rights Reserved Contact us | Privacy Policy | Advertise with us Your personal online English school. Learn English at Englishpage.com! Weekly Lesson Grammar Book Vocabulary Verb Tenses Conditionals Modals Gerunds / Infinitives Articles Prepositions Minitutorials Irregular Verbs Reading Room Listening Lounge Games English Forums English Schools English · Foreign Dictionaries English ·English Dictionaries Irregular Verb Dictionary Phrasal Verb Dictionary Verb + Preposition Dictionary http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/mixed_prepositions_18.htm 2/2