Question

Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition:
Will you accompany _______ me to the market?
a) with
b) from
c) to
d) No preposition

Answer 1

Hint: A preposition shows us the relation between two words. It also tells us the position of the subject in the sentence. For example, she poured water into the glass. Where did she pour the water? Into the glass. Thus, into is the preposition. We know she did not pour water beside, outside, or over the glass.

Complete answer:
Option a is wrong because we don’t use “with” with accompany. The word accompany itself means “to go along with” someone. She accompanied him to the fair. There is no need for any extra preposition to signify that she went with him.
Option b is wrong because “from” means a point of origin. She started for home from Kolkata. So her starting point was Kolkata. “She was from Mumbai” means she lived in Mumbai. You do not accompany from someone to the market.
Option c is wrong because “to” is included in the meaning of “accompany”. The meaning of accompany can be written as “to give company to” someone.
Therefore, the correct option is d. No preposition is to be used in this sentence since the word accompany does not require a preposition with it.

Note:
 It is in very rare cases where answers like option d is the correct answer. Prepositions can be aced with a rich vocabulary and a lot of reading of articles and books. Knowing the meaning of words can hint at whether they need any preposition before them to complete a sentence.