Identity the mistake in the use of prepositions in the following sentence:She is good at cooking in the kitchen.
Correct answer: A. It's a correct sentence
- A. It's a correct sentence
- B. The preposition "at" should be omitted
- C. The preposition "in" should be "on"
- D. The preposition "cooking" should be "to cook."
Explanation
The phrase "good at cooking" is correct, as "good at" is the correct preposition to use when talking about skill in an activity."In the kitchen" is also correct because it refers to the location where the cooking happens.Thus, the sentence "She is good at cooking in the kitchen" is actually correct as it stands. So, no change to prepositions is needed.
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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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