Choose the correct preposition: The doctor was accompanied ____ two senior nurses.
Correct answer: B. by
- A. with
- B. by
- C. from
- D. along
Explanation
Accompanied by is used for people, while accompanied with is used for things that go alongside something, as in tea accompanied with biscuits. Since nurses are people, by is required. Fixed preposition pairings like this cannot be reasoned out and have to be learned.
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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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