Question

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:
They lived in Ankara __________ 1990 ______________ 1993.
a) In/ to
b) From/ till
c) Until/ to
d) From/ by

Answer 1

Hint:According to the sentence we need the preposition that will indicate a time period or duration between the start and end of something.

Complete answer:
 A preposition is a word that links nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence. In the above option, there are six prepositions – in, to, from, till, until, and by.
As per the sentence, we need the preposition that will indicate a time period or duration between the start and end of something.
Now, In option (a) – the preposition ‘in’ is used to refer to someone specific one point in time or interest in something. This cannot be used and the preposition, i.e. ‘to’ is used to refer to movement from one place to another. This too is not the correct answer.
 In option (b) – the preposition ‘from’ is used to show the start of something. This can be used in the first blank. Hence we can use it and the preposition ‘till’ can be used to indicate the end of something. Hence, it can be used in the second blank.
In option (c) – the preposition ‘until’ is used to show continuous action that stops at a specific time and the preposition ‘to’ has been explained above already. Hence, this cannot be the solution too.
In option (d) – the preposition ‘form’ cannot be used here (as explained above) and the preposition ‘by’ can be used in many situations but it is not relevant here. Hence, this too is the wrong option.
So, by the above explanation, we can conclude that the correct solution is option (b), i.e. from/ till.
This makes the sentence – ‘They lived in Ankara from 1990 till 1993.

Note:
Be careful while using the prepositions. The preposition until, by, and from do not form the correct sentence in the above case hence can be eliminated.