Adverbials of Direction

When talking about direction, there are several prepositional phrases you could use:

 Across
 Along
 Back
 Back to
 Down
 Onto
 Out of
 Past
 Through
 To

Let’s start off with two examples:

Sally ran out of the bar and jumped right onto her bike.
Walk past the school, down the road and through the park.

Adverbs and Adverb Phrases

You could also use adverbs and adverb phrases for place and direction. As you might know (or remember) adverbs are words that add information to a verb, making your sentences a bit more interesting.

Abroad
Away
Anywhere
Downstairs
Everywhere
Here
Indoors
Inside
Outdoors
Outside
Somewhere
There

Some more examples:

I can’t wait to go abroad next month!
We can sit anywhere you want. I don’t mind at all.
It’s too cold for us to eat outside.
There’s snow here, there… actually everywhere!

Which prepositional phrases, adverbs or adverb phrases would you use here?

Lesson by Krista

• 1. You’ll find the central bank right ___ Smith Street.
  
  across
  there
  outside
  
  
• 2. Lucy and Anne are going ___ the UK to finish their English course.
  
  out of
  inside
  back to
  
  
• 3. I think I saw Jim ___, in the living room playing his favourite video game.
  
  somewhere
  along
  downstairs
  
  
• 4. I can’t believe they’ve just walked ___ us without even saying hello!
  
  past
  away
  onto
  
  
• 5. Their mother warned them to stay ___ because of the strong winds.
  
  anywhere
  somewhere
  indoors
  
  
• 6. I’m not too sure where your cat is hiding. It could be ___!
  
  abroad
  away
  anywhere
  
  
• 7. The girl was only thirteen when she ran ___ from home.
  
  back to
  away
  out of
  
  
• 8. We walked ___ the river for three hours.
  
  inside
  along
  through