Question

Find these verbs in the extract and write the prepositions that follow them.

learn

borrow

belong

happen

wait

think

Answer 1

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What's in a name?

Last year, as I was travelling through Australia, I often stopped at places with strange or unusual names: names like Murwillumbah and Waterloo. I often asked myself, Where do all these names come from? And what can we learn from them?' Local people sometimes knew the answer and sometimes they didn't, so I decided to look at these place names more closely and found out some interesting facts.

Many place names give us a clue because they describe physical characteristics, like 'big hill', 'dry desert, or tall tree' Thousands of years ago, this is how the first Australians - the Aborigines - named places. Today, in Australia, there are thousands of places with Aboriginal names, towns like Murwillumbah (good campsite), Nambucca (entrance to the sea), Bondi Beach from the word 'Boondi' (the sound of water falling over rocks) and Uluru (big rock).

The Europeans had different ideas. When they first arrived in 1606, they wanted to make this strange new land feel like home. How 15 did they do it? Well, they borrowed names from the country they came from - it showed that these places belonged to them. French and Dutch place names like Bougainville and Arnhem Land started to appear along the 20 Australian coast. Then, in 1770, the English explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay. Soon, there was Melbourne, a town named after a British Prime Minister, and Waterloo, named after a famous battle between England 25 and France.

Ответ:

learn from, borrow from, belong to, happen to, wait for, think about

Объяснение:

learn from узнать из, borrow from заимствовать у, belong to принадлежать к, happen toслучиться с, wait for ждать кого/чего, think about думать о