Choose the correct preposition: She is married ____ a doctor.
Correct answer: B. to
- A. with
- B. to
- C. of
- D. by
Explanation
Married takes to when naming the spouse, so she is married to a doctor. Married with is a common error carried over from other languages. The related phrase engaged to follows the same pattern.
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Prepositions link a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence, showing place, time, direction or relation. The difficulty is idiomatic rather than logical: English fixes particular prepositions to particular verbs and adjectives, so “good at,” “married to” and “differ from” have to be learned as units rather than reasoned out.
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