Prepositions after passive verbs: complete the sentence about moving prisoners Context: Robbers were arrested and then moved to a destination. Fill the blank with the correct preposition phrase: "The robbers were arrested and ______ prison yesterday." Choose the correct option.
Verbal Ability
Selecting Words
Difficulty: Easy
Choose an option
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Abrought into
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Bbrought to
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Ctaken into
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Dtaken to
Answer
Correct Answer: taken to
Explanation
Given data
- Structure: passive voice + motion to a place (prison).
Concept/ApproachUse take someone to for conveying a person to a destination; in passive it becomes “were taken to.” Bring depends on deictic perspective (toward the speaker) and sounds odd in narrative passive here. Into stresses entry, but the idiom is “taken to prison.”
Option analysistaken to — correct collocation: “taken to prison.” ✅brought to — less natural in this passive narrative.brought into / taken into — focus on movement inside, not standard here.
Final Answertaken to