Apart from articles, there are other areas of English where learners find themselves on 1. _ ground. One of them is the use of prepositions, or those little words such as on, of, with, about, in, etc. that are often difficult to get 2. _. There are cases where English and Croatian use the same preposition, so you can 3. _ on your colleagues, as long as they do not 4. _ with you. But then again, it 5. _ on how you define competitiveness.
If it inspires you to achieve more, to put more 6. _ into learning, and 7. _ better at speaking the language, then it is definitely a positive thing. To that end, we will 8. _ at some common situations where learners frequently get the prepositions wrong. The first category includes prepositions that are different from their English counterparts, and there is no rule to point you in the right direction. The only solution is to learn verbs / adjectives together with the prepositions as a fixed phrase.
The Croatian na is a real trouble-maker when 9. _ into English (just one case in point). For example, you can see yourself in a picture or clouds in the sky (not on). Or, you can be 10. _ with/at your boss for 11. _ you in/at long meetings, with the excuse that you must become the most successful company 12. _ the world. You could be even angrier if that prevents you from enjoying life’s simple pleasures, such as 13. _ in the sun, playing with your kids in the snow, or 14. _ in the street with your new boyfriend.
