Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition:
Please put your homework __________ my desk.
A. from
B. to
C. on
D. with

Answer 1

Hint: We must know about the words and situations where they are used and also we must see that the selected option will make the sentence meaningful.
Choose the option which will be grammatically correct.


Complete answer: Let’s understand first what a preposition is.
Preposition: A preposition is a word placed before a noun or a pronoun to show in what relation the person or thing denoted by it stands in regard to something else.
The word Preposition means “that which is placed before”.
Example: 1) There is a goat in the field.
2) He is fond of French fries.
3) The cat jumped off the desk.
The word is, of, off are used as prepositions and showing the relation between “noun to another noun”, “ noun to an adjective”, “ noun to the verb”.
Now let’s examine and understand which option is suitable for the given sentence.
The given options: option [A] from, option [B] to, and option [D] with are indicating the resource, a direction, and inclusion respectively. Hence, they are inappropriate options.

Here the correct answer is option [C] on as it is indicating a surface.


Note:
The study of parts of speech is necessary (a category of words that have similar grammatical properties).
There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs, etc). Prepositions are important words. Do co-relate the sentence with meaningful output.