Dependent & Figurative Prepositions — Who Really Owns Your Carbon Footprint?
Grammar: Prepositions — formal, dependent, and figurative
Free ESL grammar exercise on dependent & figurative prepositions themed around who really owns your carbon footprint?. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on environment, practising prepositions — formal, dependent, and figurative. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
BP's calculator was effective not at reducing emissions but at redirecting blame. Fossil fuel companies spent decades casting doubt on collective solutions and lobbying for a system that externalised its costs onto future generations.
Grammar
- Dependent prepositions
- Fixed combinations of verb or adjective + preposition. She was averse to collective solutions. — must be memorised as a chunk.
- Figurative
- Prepositions used metaphorically to show direction of force or blame. The industry redirected attention onto the individual.
Sample items
- The campaign was effective ______ shifting public attention away from corporate accountability.
- Think tanks spent years casting doubt ______ the credibility of binding international agreements.
- Critics argue that the industry is responsible ______ externalising enormous costs onto the atmosphere.
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