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title: Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences toge… — how Mova does on the tests · Language
description: Lesson 6 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 6 of the language course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Your mate goes "prepositions are well pointless, tiny words innit." What sentence shows they matter?

- **1.** "The cat sat" needs no small words, so they can always go — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** Prepositions only matter in French — score 10
- **3.** Small words never change meaning — score 8
- **4.** "The cat is in the box" and "The cat is on the box" mean different things — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 6, line 1: «Prepositions are small words that show where, when or how things connect: on, under, in, behind, before, after, with; a pencil "on the desk" and a pencil "unde…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «small words» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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A Yorkshire dad says "I'm sat in t'car, get a move on!" (In Yorkshire "t'" means the.) What's going on?

- **1.** Someone has sat him down in the car — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He is about to get out of the car — no support
- **3.** He is sitting in the car waiting — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He sat in the car yesterday — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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An Aussie mate says "Heaps of us are going to the beach this arvo, ya keen?" ("Heaps" means lots, "keen" means up for it.) When are they going?

- **1.** Tomorrow night — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** This afternoon — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** This morning — no support
- **4.** Next weekend — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Your teacher writes "What did you step on?" and Grandad says it breaks a rule. What's the best reply?

- **1.** Ending with a preposition is natural English; the rule is a myth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** It is fine only in America — no support
- **3.** It is fine only if you whisper it — no support
- **4.** Grandad is right, it must be "On what did you step?" in every case — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 5: «Some old "rules" are myths: ending a sentence with a preposition ("What are you looking at?") is natural English, and starting with And or But can be fine for…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «old rules» (+2); the same thing acted on «myths» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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What would happen if we had no conjunctions?

- **1.** Nothing, because nouns would simply join the sentences — no support
- **2.** Every sentence would become a question — no support
- **3.** We'd have to say everything in short separate sentences — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** We could no longer use verbs — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 18: «Literally first meant exactly, really happening; for hundreds of years writers, Charles Dickens among them, have also used it just to make things stronger, and…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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A Kiwi says "I'll see you on the weekend, chur." ("Chur" means thanks, cheers, in New Zealand.) Your nan from Kent says he got it wrong. Is that fair?

- **1.** No, but only because he said chur — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, "at the weekend" is the only proper English anywhere — no support
- **3.** Yes, it should be "in the weekend" — no support
- **4.** No, "on the weekend" is normal outside Britain — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Harry writes "We went to the beach. Because it was sunny. And we swam." Which part can't stand alone as a sentence?

- **1.** We went to the beach — no support
- **2.** None of them can stand alone — no support
- **3.** Because it was sunny — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** And we swam — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 3: «"I went home because I was tired" is one sentence; "Because I was tired." on its own leaves you waiting, because a because-part needs a main part to lean on.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «part» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Your mum, mad, says "Tidy your room or no telly." Your dad, chilled, says "Tidy your room and you can have telly." Is the deal different?

- **1.** Yes, Dad's deal gives you more telly than Mum's — score 4
- **2.** Yes, Mum's means no telly ever — no support
- **3.** No, same deal; mum's sounds stricter — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** No, and both sound equally kind — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 16: «"Eat your peas or you won't get pudding" and "Eat your peas and you'll get pudding" make the same deal, but "or" sounds stricter and "and" sounds kinder.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «same deal» (+4); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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In a game, the hint says "The key is under the rug behind the sofa." Where do you look first?

- **1.** On top of the sofa, right above where the rug lies — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Inside the sofa cushions — no support
- **3.** Beneath the rug that is behind the sofa — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Behind the rug in front of the sofa — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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A US cousin says "I'm bored of school, lowkey." ("Lowkey" means a bit, quietly.) Your gran says "bored WITH". Who is wrong?

- **1.** Both, it must be "bored by" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Neither; both are used — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Your gran, "bored with" is wrong — no support
- **4.** Your cousin, "bored of" is wrong — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Little sister writes "I like apples and I like pears and I like plums and I like grapes." How could she join it better?

- **1.** I like apples because pears plums grapes — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** I like and apples and pears and plums — no support
- **3.** I like apples but pears or plums so grapes — no support
- **4.** I like apples, pears, plums and grapes — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a preposition?

- **1.** A word qualifying a noun — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A word denoting an action or state, preceding a noun or pronoun — no support
- **3.** A word indicating relations of place, time or connection, preceding a noun or pronoun — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A word replacing a noun to avoid repetition — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the principal function of the conjunction "because".

- **1.** The indication of a location — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The expression of a contrast — no support
- **3.** The introduction of a reason — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The presentation of an alternative — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the placement of a preposition at the end of an English sentence.

- **1.** Such placement constitutes an error in every variety of English, without exception — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Such placement is permitted exclusively in interrogative sentences — no support
- **3.** Such placement is natural in English; the contrary prescription derives from imitation of Latin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Such placement was prohibited by statute in the eighteenth century — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Given the utterance "I went home. Because I was tired.", ascertain the correction most consistent with the conventions of written English.

- **1.** I went. Home because I was tired. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** I went home. Because, I was tired. — no support
- **3.** I went home because I was tired. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Because I went home. I was tired. — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/e4/)

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