Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition:
How do the children get ___________________ school in the morning?
a) To
b) At
c) Of
d) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint:We need a preposition that indicates direction or movement from one place to another. As the question asks how the children are going to school in the morning.

Complete answer:
 A preposition establishes some kind of relation between the elements of a clause or words (used in the sentence).
Now, prepositions are used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence. They are usually short words and are placed directly in front of nouns. Some examples include: by, to, of, off, on, with, from, into, in, etc.
Now, different prepositions have different usage and meaning and the one suited here will describe a movement (from one place to another) or establish some direction.
So, let us look into the options and their usage –
Option (a) – ‘to’: the preposition ‘to’ is used to indicate movement from one place to another. We use this preposition with verbs like drive, fly, go, and walk, etc. for example: we’re driving to the beach today.
Option (b) – ‘at’: the preposition ‘at’ is used to indicate some location. For example: the murder happened at the city hall.
Option (c) – ‘of’: the preposition ‘of’ is used to indicate possession or represent a part of a whole. For example he is a boy of 15.
Option (d) – none of the above indicates that none of the options are true.
So, if you look carefully at the explanation provided above you will see that the preposition that makes the most sense is ‘to’. Therefore, the correct solution is option (a).
This makes the sentence – “How do the children get to school in the morning?”

Note:
You can eliminate the last option and the second last because the preposition ‘of’ talks about possession and not movement between two locations or place.