WORDS FOLLOWED BY PREPOSITIONS
Certain Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, and Participles are always followed by
particular Prepositions. Read the following sentences, noting appropriate
Prepositions:-Mumbai is famous for its textiles.
The goat subsists on the coarsest of food. Jawaharlal Nehru was fond of
children.
India is
a noble, gorgeous land, teeming with natural wealth.
Being apprised of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet
their minister.
In the classical age the ideal life of the Brahman was divided into four
stages or ashrams. It is natural in every man to wish for distinction.
He was endowed with gifts fitted to win eminence in any field of human
activity. The writer is evidently enamoured of the subject.
These computers are cheap enough to be accessible to most people.
Ambition does not always conduce to ultimate happiness.
The true gentleman is courteous and affable to his neighbours. Newly
acquired freedom is sometimes liable to abuse.
Little
Jack proved quite a match for the giant.
The African elephant is now confined to Central Africa. Camels are
peculiarly adapted to life in the desert.
He is a man of deep learning, but totally ignorant of life and manners.
The income derived from the ownership of land is commonly called rent.
The Moors were famous for their learning and their skill in all kinds of
industries. Alexander profited by the dissensions of the Punjab Rajas.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. I am indebted to you
for your help.
Ashoka, although tolerant of competing creeds, was personally an ardent
Buddhist. The celebrated grammarian Patanjali was a contemporary of Pushyamitra
Sunga. Ivory readily adapts itself to the carver's art.
Coleridge's poetry is remarkable/or the perfection
of its execution. The holy tree is associated with scenes of goodwill and
rejoicing. The noise from downstairs prevented me from sleeping.
I am
already acquainted with the latest developments of the situation.
His
duties were of a kind ill-suited to his ardent and daring character.
Man is
entirely different from other animals in the utter helplessness of his
babyhood.
A residence of eight years in Sri Lanka had inured his system to the
tropical climate. The ancient Greeks, though born in a warm climate, seem to
have been much addicted to the bottle.
He (Dr.
Johnson) was somewhat susceptible to flattery.
A man who
always connives at the faults of his children is their worst enemy.
Naples
was then destitute o/what are now, perhaps, its chief attractions.
The cat
appears to have originated in Egypt or in the East.
Judged by
its results the policy of Hastings was eminently successful.
In his
work Charak often hints at the value of sweet oil.
There is
still no cure for the common cold.
It was
formerly supposed that malaria was due to poisonous exhalations.
People
who are averse to hard work, generally do not succeed in life.
Exercise
in Composition
Construct
sentences containing the following expressions:-
Afflicted
with leprosy; sanguine of success; commit to memory; specific for malaria;
allowance
for short weight; appropriate-to the occasion; abstain from animal food;
antipathy
to dogs; convulsed with laughter; contrary to expectation; infested with
vermin;
touched
with pity; subversive of discipline; beneficial to health; tantamount to
refusal;
worthy of praise; beset with difficulties; accountable to God; atone for
misdeeds;
addicted
to opium; entitled to consideration; heedless of consequences; deaf to
entreaties;
aptitude
for business; incentive to hard work; sensitive to criticism; indifferent to
praise
or blame.
Exercise
in Composition
The following nouns take the preposition for after them. Use them in
sentences:-Affection, ambition, anxiety, apology, appetite, aptitude, blame,
candidate, capacity, compassion, compensation, contempt, craving, desire,
esteem, fitness, fondness, guarantee, leisure, liking, match, motive, need,
opportunity, partiality, passion, pity, predilection, pretext, relish, remorse,
reputation, surety.
Exercise
in Composition
The following nouns take the preposition with after them. Use them in
sentences:-Acquaintance, alliance, bargain, comparison, conformity, enmity,
intercourse, intimacy, relations.
Exercise
in Composition
The following nouns take the preposition of after them. Use them in
sentences:-Abhorrence, assurance, charge, distrust, doubt, experience, failure,
observance, proof, result, want.
Exercise
in Composition
The
following nouns take the preposition to after them. Use them in sentences:
Access, accession, allegiance, alternative, antidote, antipathy,
approach, assent, attachment, attention, concession, disgrace, dislike,
encouragement, enmity, exception, incentive, indifference, invitation, key,
leniency, likeness, limit, menace, obedience, objection, obstruction,
opposition, postscript, preface, reference, repugnance, resemblance, sequal,
submission, succession, supplement, temptation, traitor.
Exercise
In Composition
The following nouns take the preposition from after them. Use them in
sentences:-Abstinence, cessation, deliverance, descent, digression, escape,
exemption, inference, respite.
Exercise
in Composition
The following adjectives and participles take the preposition to after
them. Use them in sentences:-
Abhorrent, acceptable, accessible, accustomed, addicted, adequate,
adjacent, affectionate, agreeable, akin, alien, alive, amenable, analogous,
applicable, appropriate, beneficial, callous, common, comparable, condemned.
Conducive, conformable, congenial, consecrated, contrary, creditable,
deaf, derogatory, detrimental, devoted, disastrous, due, entitled, equal,
essential, exposed, faithful, fatal, foreign, hostile, impertinent, incidental,
in clined.
Indebted, indifferent, indispensable, indulgent, inimical, insensible,
injured, irrelevant, favourable, hurtful, immaterial, impervious, indigenous,
liable, limited, lost, loyal, material, natural, necessary.
Obedient, obliged, offensive, opposite, painful, partial, peculiar,
pertinent, pledged, preferable, prejudicial, prior, profitable, prone, reduced,
related, relevant, repugnant, responsible, restricted, sacred, sensitive,
serviceable, subject, suitable, suited, supplementary, tantamount, true.
Exercise
in Composition
The following adjectives and participles take the preposition in after
them. Use them in sentences:-
Absorbed, abstemious, accomplished, accurate, assiduous, backward,
bigoted, correct, defective, deficient, experienced, diligent, enveloped,
fertile, foiled,- honest, implicated, interested, involved, lax, proficient,
remiss, temperate, versed.
Exercise
in Composition
The following adjectives and participles take the preposition with after
them. Use them in sentences:-
Acquainted, afficted, beset, busy, compatible, complaint, consistent,
contemporary, contented, contrasted, conversant, convulsed, delighted, deluged,
disgusted, drenched, endowed, fatigued, fired, gifted., infaturated, infected,
infested, inspired, intimate, invested, overcome, popular, replete, satiated,
satisfied, touched.
Exercise
in Composition
The following adjectives and participles take the preposition of after
them. Use them in sentences:-
Accused, acquitted, afraid, apprehensive, apprised, assured, aware, bereft,
bought, cautious, certain, characteristic, composed, confident, conscious,
convicted, convinced, covetous, defrauded, deprived, desirous, destitute,
devoid, diffident, distrustful, dull, easy, envious, fearful, fond, greedy,
guilty, heedless, ignorant, informed, innocent, irrespective, lame, lavish,
negligent, productive, proud, regardless, sanguine, sensible, sick, slow,
subversive, sure, suspicious, tolerant, vain, void, weary, worthy.
Exercise
in Composition
The following adjectives and participles take the preposition for after
them. Use them in sentences:-
Anxious, celebrated, conspicuous, customary, designed, destined, eager,
eligible, eminent, fit, good, grateful, notorious, penitent, prepared,, proper,
qualified, ready, sorry, sufficient, useful, zealous.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition to after them. Use them in
sentences:-Accede, adapt, adhere, allot, allude, apologize, appoint, ascribe,
aspire, assent, attain, attend, attribute, belong, conduce, conform, consent,
contribute, lead, listen, object, occur, prefer, pretend, refer, revert, stoop,
succumb, surrender, testify, yield.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition from after them. Use them in
sentences:-Abstain, alight, cease, debar, derive, derogate, desist, detract,
deviate, differ, digress, dissent, elicit, emerge, escape, exclude, preserve,
prevent, prohibit, protect, recoil, recover, refrain.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition with after them. Use them in
sentences:-Associate, bear, clash, coincide, comply, condole, cope, correspond,
credit, deluge, disagree, dispense, expostulate, fill, grapple, intrigue,
meddle, part, quarrel, remonstrate, side, sympathize, trifle, vie.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition of after them. Use them in
sentences:-Acquit, beware, boast, complain, despair, die, disapprove, dispose,
divest, dream, heal, judge, repent, taste.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the prepositions for after them. Use them in
sentences:-Atone, canvass, care, clamour, feel, hope, mourn, pine, start,
stipulate, sue, wish, yearn.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition in after them. Use them in
sentences:-Acquiesce, dabble, delight, employ, enlist, excel, fall, glory,
increase, indulge, involve, persevere, persist.
Exercise
in Composition
The following verbs take the preposition on after them. Use them in
sentences:-Comment, decide, deliberate, depend, determine, dwell, embark,
encroach, enlarge, impose, insist, intrude, resolve, subsist, trample.
Exercise
in Composition
Fill in
the blanks with appropriate Prepositions:-
The Nizam
subscribed a handsome sum --- the Flood Relief Fund.
His friends
condoled --- him --- his bereavement.
He
quarrelled --- me --- a trifle.
He
readily complied --- my request.
He
dispensed --- the services of his dishonest clerk.
He
yielded --- superior force.
He
despaired --- success.
He
supplies the poor --- clothing.
His
friends disagreed --- him on that point.
He acceded --- my request,
He abstains --- liquor.
He was found guilty --- manslaughter.
He is incapable --- doing good work.
He is married --- my cousin.
He is sensible --- your kindness,
He is true --- his king.
He is involved --- difficulties.
The auditor is entitled --- his remuneration.
I prefer tea --- coffee.
I don't concur --- you --- that opinion.
There is no exception --- this rule.
1 am obliged --- you --- your kindness.
I am not envious --- his success.
I am convinced --- the necessity of prudence.
We should rely --- our own efforts.
I inquired --- the servant if his master was at
home.
I purposely refrained --- saying more.
I insisted --- going.
I exchanged --- him my calculator --- a camera.
I assented --- his proposal.
The
stories in that book are full --- interest.
Don't
associate --- disreputable people.
Do not
indulge --- strong language.
He is
grateful --- his master --- many favours.
He is
dependent --- his parents.
He is
abstemious --- eating and drinking.
He is
prompt --- carrying out orders.
He is
vain --- his attainments.
He is
deficient --- common sense. .
He is
vexed --- me.
He is
indifferent --- his own interest.
He is
proficient --- mathematics.
He is not
ashamed --- his neighbours.
He is
devoid --- sense.
He is
suspicious --- all his neighbours.
He has a
passion --- arguing.
Recently
there has been a reduction --- the price of milk.
He proved
false --- his friend.
A square
may be equivalent --- a triangle.
The
avaricious man is greedy --- gain.
He is
very different --- his brother.
The
head-dress of the Cossacks is similar --- that of the ancient Persians.
He was
born --- humble parents in Nasik.
His views
do not accord --- mine.
Exercise
in Composition
Fill in
the blanks with appropriate Prepositions:-
Temperance
and employment are conducive --- health.
A
policeman rescued the child --- danger.
Dogs have
antipathy --- cats.
He
promised not to do anything repugnant --- the wishes of his parents.
He is not
the man to allow any one to encroach --- his rights.
Some of
the members of the Assembly complained --- increased military expenditure.
Even the
enemies admit that he is endowed --- rare talents.
He
inspires respect --- his friends.
Our path
is beset --- difficulties.
He was
not able to give a satisfactory explanation --- his absence.
His
illness is a mere pretext --- his absence.
He has
been very much indulgent --- his children.
This
discussion is hardly relevant --- the subject
Contentment
is essential --- happiness.
Early rising
is beneficial --- health.
He is not
likely to do anything detrimental --- our interests.
His
benefactions must redound --- his credit.
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Only graduates are eligible
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--- the post.
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He is
capable as a leader, but intolerant --- opposition.
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Boys
over sixteen are debarred --- competing.
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Father
Damien consecrated his life
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---
ameliorating the lot of lepers.
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That rule is not applicable ---
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your
case.
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A public man should be tolerant ---
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criticism.
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He is
willing to make a concession
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--- the demands of his employees.
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I often find him
absorbed ---
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thought.
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The accommodation is adequate ---
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our
needs.
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The hotel is adjacent --- the station.
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The
authorship of the book is wrongly ascribed --- him.
Never do
anything that is not compatible --- public safety.
His
father often connives --- his follies.
Some
public men are very sensitive --- criticism.
He is
addicted --- gambling.
You need
not be afraid --- being late.
Death is
preferable --- disgrace.
Cats are
tenacious --- life.
It is not
true that the study of science tends --- atheism.
Some
films are an incitement --- crime.
He was
angry --- me, because he thought my remark was aimed --- him.
The
climate of Rangoon does not agree --- him.
His plans
are adverse --- my interests.
The
question of unemployment bristles --- difficulties.
Although
he was bred --- the law, he became a successful journalist.
Generally,
the rich are more covetous --- money than the poor.
He is
still smarting --- rebuke.
He
scoffed --- the idea of revolution.
He has
reverted --- his former post.
The
battle resulted --- a victory for the Allies.
He
restored the article --- its rightful owner.
The whole
theory rests --- no firmer foundation than mere conjecture.
The
ultimate decision rests --- the board of directors.
Only when
persuasions failed the police resorted --- force.
Superstitious
fears preyed --- his mind and made him miserable.
He piques
himself --- his artistic taste.
They now
jeered --- him whom they had once acclaimed as their hero.
His
followers now began to intrigue --- his adversary.
She
interceded --- her husband on behalf of the people,
It is not
easy to infer --- his account the real state of affairs.
He died
without imparting --- anyone the secret of his process.
His
statement was tantamount --- a confession.
The facts
point --- a different explanation.
His
friends prevailed --- him to withdraw his resignation.
Few boys
are not amenable --- discipline.
Exercise
in Composition
Fill in
the blanks with appropriate Prepositions:-
Silkworms
feed --- mulberry trees.
Pavlova
excels --- dancing.
The wild
boar abounds --- some parts of Europe.
He has no
special liking --- mathematics.
Asoka is
worthy --- remembrance.
The
godown is infested --- rats.
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There
is no exception
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this rule.
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Nothing
conduces ---
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happiness so much as contentment.
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Alcohol is injurious ---
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health.
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Oil is
good ---
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burns.
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Invalids are not capable ---
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exertion.
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The British Parliament is composed --- two Houses.
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Do no
confide your secrets
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--- every
one.
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He is
abstemious
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habits.
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He is
ignorant
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---
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what he
pretends to know.
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Birbal is celebrated ---
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his witty sayings.
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The
avaricious man is greedy ---
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gain.
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The
Atlantic separates Europe
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America.
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Adam
assigned ---
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every creature a name peculiar
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nature.
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Temperance and employment are conducive ---
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health.
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A brave boy rescued the child ---
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danger.
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Industry is the key
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success.
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The customs were searching ---
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drugs at the airport.
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Elizabeth
knew how to inspire her soldiers ---
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hope.
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Long indulgence ---
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vice impaired his once robust
constitution,
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Early
rising is beneficial
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--- health.
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We
should live in a style suited ---
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our condition.
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Examinations
act as an incentive
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diligence.
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Hard
work and perseverance are indispensable ---
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success
in life.
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He is too miserly to part ---
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his money.
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He is a clever man, but unfortunately diffident
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---
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his
powers.
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Suddenly
we were enveloped ---
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dense
fog.
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Many
aspire
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---
greatness, but few attained.
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His
income is not adequate ---
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his
wants.
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The soil of Pune is favourable ---
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roses,
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I am
sick ---
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the
whole business.
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A car will he a great convenience ---
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a busy
man like him.
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Whoever acts contrary ---
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nature does not go unpunished.
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The
accident resulted ---
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the
death of five people.
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These
derelict houses are reproach
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--- the city.
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The
Germans were called baby-killers and their methods of warfare stigmatized
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as a
reproach ---
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civilization.
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The
mule was partially relieved ---
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the load,
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America
has raised a tariff wall to protect home industries ---
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foreign competition.
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The
facts point ---
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a different conclusion.
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Your
wish is tantamount
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--- a
command.
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This state is committed ---
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the policy of total
prohibition.
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One is sure ---
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what
one sees.
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He is
indifferent alike
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praise and blame.
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Exercise
in Composition
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the blanks with appropriate Prepositions:-
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No doubt he has achieved much, but I cannot give him
credit ---
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all
that he boasts ---.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing
hindrance
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3.
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He is
indebted ---
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his
friend ---
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a large
sum.
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What Dr. Arnold mainly aimed
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was to promote the self-development of the young
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minds committed ---
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his
charge.
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5.
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He was so much enamoured ---
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her
that he forgot his duties ---
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his
children.
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6. It
is difficult to agree ---
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those
critics who ascribe the work of Shakespeare ---
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7. In his autobiography he refers ---
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his abhorrence ---
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animal
diet.
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He
conversed ---
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us ---
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subjects ---
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varied interest.
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9.
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The
accident happened
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--- him ---
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a late hour and ---
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an out-of-the-way place.
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10.
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A
cashier is liable to, render account ---
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the
money received ---
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him.
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11.
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The
soldiers ---
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the
front were provided
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provisions to last them a year.
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We are accountable ---
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God ---
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our
action.
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Let us vie ---
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one
another ---
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doing
good.
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His thirst ---
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knowledge left him no leisure
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anything
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15.
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The rich and the poor alike nobly responded
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the
call
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further funds.
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For those who suffer ---
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nerves the remedy lies
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perfect
rest.
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A slave
lies
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--- the
necessity
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obeying his master's orders.
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The
heir ---
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the throne was free ---
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physical
or moral taint.
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He
impressed ---
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them that sorcery was vital
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their
success.
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Methylated
spirit is spirit of wine made undrinkable by mixing it ---
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duty.
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To love
our country, to be interested ---
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its concerns, is natural
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He complained ---
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his weak eyes and lamented the necessity ---
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spectacles.
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Samudragupta was known ---
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his skill ---
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music and song; he was equally proficient
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allied art of poetry.
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It is
the grasping of power combined ---
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the thirst ---
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fame which constitutes
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ambition.
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admiration in such a people,
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rather than to carp ---
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their
errors.
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The common fallacy is that intimacy dispenses
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the
necessity of politeness. The
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truth
is just the opposite ---
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grossest superstition.
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He has no liking ---
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first they refused to acquience
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experience.
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Coriolanus, with all his greatness, was entirely devoid
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sympathy ---
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alcohol.
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first acts of the new administration were characterized rather ---
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were statesmen accustomed
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Measure yourself
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your equals; and learn ---
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frequent competition the place
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my instructions, he went ---
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Sometimes a word takes a certain Preposition after it in one context and
a different Preposition in another context.
We should accommodate ourselves to circumstances. My friend accommodated
me with a loan.
I differ
with you on this question. Your car differs from mine in several respects.
I am
anxious about the result. Her parents are anxious for her safety.
He has
retired from business. He has retired into private life.
He has
great influence over his disciples. He has hardly any influence with the
Vizier.
The
remarks of his critics had considerable influence on his writings.
All his life he laboured for the good of humanity. He is labouring under
a is apprehension. He laboured at his dictionary for twelve years.
Trespassers
are liable to a fine of Rs. 500. He is liable for his wife's debts.
Exercise
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child is not able to distinguish good
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evil. Death does not
distinguish ---
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poor. Sir Ronald Ross is distinguished ---
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his medical researches. Punch is
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distinguished
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his
hunchback, (between, by, for, from)
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competing. Ill health disqualified the body -
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study;
(for, from.)
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as there was no proof ---
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(against, of.).
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has no good cause
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charity does not consist
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alms-giving. Brass consists ---
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zinc, (in, of.)
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his affairs. I am not concerned ---
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that business. He was
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concerned
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--- hearing the sad news. His
parents are naturally concerned ---
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(about, at, for, in, with.)
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parted
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pilgrimage
to Dwarka. (from, with.)
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fear. He acted
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my suggestion. He acted
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throne of his uncle. He succeeded
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He agreed ---
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my proposal. He agreed ---
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me on chat question. They could not agree -
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themselves, (among, to, with.)
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The patient is now free ---
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danger.
He is free ---
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his money. The goods, were
passed
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free
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duty
(from, of, with)
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I prevailed ---
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him to
join our Union. He prevailed ---
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me in the dispute. The
peculiar
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custom prevails ---
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the
Todas. (among, over, upon.)
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I was angry ---
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lying to me. (for, with)
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The city is well provided ---
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corn. We should provide ---
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risk of fire by insuring
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our goods. He has provided ---
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his
children, (against, for, with).
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The police is entrusted ---
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the enforcement of law and order. The children
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the
care of their uncle, (to, with.)
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'The edition of Ivanhoe is adapted ---
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boys. The form and structure of
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Urdu plays are adapted -
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English. (for, from, to.)
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We are
all slaves ---
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convention. No man should be a slave ---
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his passions, (of, to.)
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He is blind one eye. Are you blind ---
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your
own interests? (of, to.)
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There is no exception --- the rule. All the ministers were present at
the function with the exception --- Mr. Smith. He took exception --- the
presence of an out sider, (against, of, to.)
His
creditors became impatient --- payment. Impatient --- delay, he knocked at the
door rather loudly. The people became impatient --- the burden of heavy
taxation, (at, for, under).
Exercise
in Composition
Fill in
the blanks with appropriate Prepositions:-
1.He invested his patrimony --- jute
shares. The Police Commissioner is invested ---
magisterial
powers. (in, with)
Some
related words take different Prepositions after them.
I acted according
to his advice.
In
accordance with his advice I took quinine.
The old
lady is affectionate to all.
The flood
and ebb tides alternage with each other.
The
alternative to submission is death.
It is all
due to his ambition for fame.
He is
ambitious of fame.
He is
capable of anything.
He has
not the requisite capacity for this work.
He has
great confidence in his assistant.
He is
finite confident of success.
What a
contrast to his brother!
What a
contrast between them!
The
present speech is mild contrasted with his past utterance on the same subject.
It is not
likely to derogate from his merit.
He never
said or did anything derogatory to his high position.
He is
descended from a noble family.
He is a
descendant of Mahatma Gandhi.
He has no
desire for fame.
He is
desirous of visiting Agra.
He was
equal to the occasion.
He is to
be blamed equally with his brother.
The coat
fits me well except for the collar.
I take
exception to your remark.
The child
is fond of sweets.
She has
great fondness for children.
The drama
is founded on an episode in the Ramayana.
It has,
however, no foundation in fact.
He
hindered me from going.
Child-marriage
is a great hindrance to progress.
He is
quite infatuated with her.
His
infatuation for that girl led him astray,
He has no
liking for cards.
His
dislike to her continued to increase.
He is
neglectful of his dress.
I have
often found him negligent in his work.
They say
he is partial to his friends.
Children
show a partiality for sweetmeats.
I have no
prejudice against foreigners.
Such a
step will be prejudicial to your interests.
He is
prepared for anything.
Preparatory
to taking extreme measures, his father once again warned him.
Pursuant to our conversation, I now send you a cheque for Rs. 500 as my
contribution to the fund.
In
pursuance of your instructions, we are writing to-day to the Collector.
I am of
opinion that he is qualified for the post.
He is
disqualified from practising as a pleader.
As a
result of the injury received by him, he died of tetanus.
It is
said that nothing resulted from the conference.
I have
great respect for his learning.
He is
respectful to his superiors, without being servile.
He seized
upon the opportunity offered to him.
The
seizure of his property was carried out under direct orders from the Rajah.
I assure
you that I am sensible of your kindness.
His
paralysed arm is insensible to feeling.
Subsequent
to the meeting he wrote a letter to The Hindu
Consequent upon this letter, the agents of the company filed a suit
against him for defamation.
Trust in
God and do what is right.
His
distrust of his assistants is perhaps unfounded.
The
country suffers for want of skilled labour.
He is
wanting in a little common sense.
Sometimes a verb is followed by a preposition; sometimes no preposition
follows it. The meaning, however, is not always the same in both cases.
I call
that mean. I called on him at his office.
I don't
catch your meaning. A drowning man catches at his office:
This
closed the proceedings. After a little higgling he closed with my offer.
He
commenced life as a shop-assistant. The proceedings commenced with a song.
Have you
counted the cost? I count upon your advice and cooperation.
He deals
fairly with his customers. He deals in cotton and cloth.
The
compounder dispenses medicines. His master dispensed with his services.
He gained his object by persuasion. He gained upon his rich uncle by his
suave manners. He grasped the meaning of the passage in no time. Like a shrewd
man of business he grasped at the opportunity.
I met him
on my way to the station. His appeals for funds met with a poor response.
He always
prepares his speech. Our soldiers prepared themselves for the offensive.
The
police searched the house of the suspect. We searched for the lost article.
Do not use the infinitive with certain words which require a preposition
followed by a gerund or by a verbal noun.
He is
addicted to gambling. [Not: to gamble.]
1
assisted her in climbing the hill.
He is
averse to playing cards.
I do not
believe in pampering servants.
I am bent
on attending the meeting.
He has
hardly any chance of succeeding.
He is
confident of securing the first prize.
The
custom of tipping is prevalent everywhere.
He is
desirous of visiting Japan.
He despaired
of achieving his object.
There is
some difficulty in perceiving his meaning.
Hereafter
he is disqualified for holding any government post.
Remember
the duty of helping the poor.
Sudha
excels in dancing.
You can
have no excuse for talking bluntly.
He is
expert in inventing stories.
I am fond
of reading novels.
The firm
was fortunate in securing the government's support.
What
hindered you from visiting the Museum?
He was
disappointed in the hope of being rewarded.
He felt
the humiliation of withdrawing his words.
We should
be indefatigable in doing good.
I
insisted on having my say.
He is
intent on visiting Norway.
You were
not justified in imputing motives to him.
He has a
knack of doing it.
He
appreciated the necessity of acting promptly.
He persisted in disobeying the orders.
He lacks
the power of imparting, although he is a good mathematical scholar.
The
practice of cramming is rightly regarded as an evil.
It was
only a pretext for delaying the matter.
What is
there to prevent him from leaving Chennai.
I had the
privilege of knowing him intimately.
They were
prohibited from entering the village.
I
refrained from hurting his feelings.
You were
right in suspecting him.
There is
little satisfaction in sitting idle.
He has no
scruple in begging.
He
succeeded in convincing, his critics.
He
thought of eluding his pursuers. I am tired of writing letters to him.
Note:-
Sometimes both constructions are allowable; e.g.
He was afraid of telling the truth.
He was afraid to tell the truth.
He at last got the opportunity of
meeting him.
He at last got the opportunity to
meet him.
On the
other hand, certain words always take the infinitive after them; as,
He
advised us to desist from that attempt.
I decline
to say anything further.
I expect
to meet opposition.
It is hard to get access to him.
He hopes
to win the first prize.
We are
all inclined to judge of others as we find them.
He
intends to compile a Marathi dictionary.
Prepositions are sometimes inserted where they are not required; as,
Where have you been to? Here to is not required.]
My eldest son is a boy of about eighteen years old, [Here of is not
required.] After having finished my work I went home. [Here after is not
required,]
Note that the verbs discuss, order and stress are transitive and
therefore they are not followed by prepositions. We discuss a topic (not
discuss about a topic), order tea (not order for tea), stress a point (not
stress on a. point).
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