Question

Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions:
A: Which way do you have to go if you travel ____ air?
B: You go __________ Bahrain.
A)On / through
B)By / via
C)By / to
D)By means of / through

Answer 1

Hint: Both the sentences belong to the same context and are related to each other. Sentence B is the response to sentence A.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Keeping the hint given to us in mind, let us being with analysing Sentence A:
We are required to link the verb, travel, with the noun, air.
 ‘On’, we cannot possibly travel ‘on’ the air. Hence, it is not a suitable preposition.
‘By’, we can travel ‘by’ air, which means travelling by an aeroplane. Hence, it is a suitable preposition.
“By means of”, we cannot travel by the means of air as it is not our means of transportation. Hence, it is not a suitable preposition.
Now, let us analyse the Sentence B:
We are required to link the verb, go, with the noun, Bahrain.
‘Through’, we cannot possibly go ‘through’ Bahrain while travelling by air. ‘Through’ means inside of a region. Hence, it is not a suitable preposition
‘Via’, we can go ‘via’ Bahrain while travelling by air.’ Via’ means going through a place that follows en route the journey. Hence, it is a suitable preposition.
‘To’, we can go ‘to’ Bahrain while travelling by air. However, to is used to introduce the destination in this context. However, in sentence A we do not talk about a destination but the way. Hence, it is not a suitable preposition.
Thus, after analysing all the Options for both the sentences, we can conclude Option B to be the correct answer.

Note: A preposition links a noun and a verb together and also represents the spatial extent, location, time, etc. Since it precedes a noun, it’s called preposition.