Exercise: Identifying incorrect prepositions
In each of the following items, identify the preposition in boldface type that is used incorrectly. If both are used incorrectly, choose “both of the above.” If neither is incorrect, choose “neither of the above.”
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Every year on July 4, a hot-dog eating contest takes place at Brooklyn, New York.
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Contestants try to eat a large number of hot dogs in twelve minutes.
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The contest is held on a hot dog restaurant called Nathan’s on an amusement park.
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Nathan’s has been in business from 1916.
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Contestants meet by the restaurant, and hundreds of people come to watch.
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People of all over the world come to Nathan’s to compete.
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A 130-pound Japanese man ate 24.5 hot dogs of buns on 1997.
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He defeated a 360-pound man of New York, who ate twenty of the restaurant’s hot dogs.
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Contestants can qualify for the contest of eleven U.S. regions and four other countries.
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The winner may not be very hungry of the grand prize, which is twenty pounds of hot dogs.