Question

Select a suitable preposition to complete the sentence:

Trust _____ God and do the right.

a)in
b)for
c)to
d)with

Answer 1

Hint: The phrase ‘to trust’ ends with a certain preposition. Identify where to place your trust.

Complete answer:

Prepositions are words that are used to show positions, locations, direction, and time. They are usually in front of nouns and gerunds.
Example - In the sentence ‘There is a lamp on the table’, the word ‘on’ describes the location of the lamp. So, it is a preposition.
There are many verb + preposition combinations in English, which are easy to learn, like ‘go up’.

Depending on which preposition is used after a verb, the meaning of the sentence can completely change. The preposition used makes a big difference. For example, ‘turn back’ and ‘turn off’ have two completely different meanings, even though the root verb is the same.


The given sentence is an imperative sentence asking you to trust God. For the sake of the context, let’s assume ‘trust’ is not an abstract noun. The sentence is directly asking you to trust something. In the English language, you place trust in someone, which means you trust them.

The phrase ‘trust for’ would imply that there is a reason to trust, which is a different meaning. The phrase ‘trust to’ would imply that there is something to be trusted to someone, which changes the meaning. The phrase ‘trust with’ means to entrust something to someone. So, all these are incorrect options.

There are some phrases which have concrete prepositions which are included at the end.
‘To trust’ is such a phrase. For the given context of the sentence, the phrase would change to ‘to trust in’. The meaning it takes on is ‘to place your trust in someone’.


Note: Complete the phrase by identifying the required preposition by using the elimination method.