Question

Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions:
He got used ______ funny customs, living ______ the country.
a. to/in
b. of/in
c. in/at
d. for/in

Answer 1

Hint: A preposition is a word that sits before a noun. ‘Pre’ in ‘preposition’ means before. Therefore, the position of a preposition is before a noun. Prepositions link sentences and words together.

Complete answer:
Applying option a to the given sentence gives us the sentence, ‘He got used to funny customs, living in the country’. This makes perfect sense because a person gets ‘used to’ something. People do not get ‘used of’, ‘used in’ or ‘used for’ something. The phrase ‘used to’ means getting familiar with or habituated to something.
Similarly, in the second blank, the answer will be ‘in’ because people live ‘in’ a country.
Thus, option a is the correct answer.
Option b is wrong because people do not get ‘used of’ something. However, the second option, that is, ‘in’ is correct but we cannot choose this option because only a part of the option is correct.
Option c is also wrong because getting ‘used in’ funny customs does not make sense. Also, ‘at’ is a wrong preposition to be used before a ‘country’ because ‘at’ is used for smaller places like a local market which is very small compared to a large country.
Option d is wrong since ‘used for’ funny customs holds no meaning. Despite the second part of the sentence being correct, the whole option has to be marked wrong.

Note: Do not choose an option that has only one correct part. Both parts of the option need to be correct to be marked as the right answer.