The right preposition — Aptitude Question
The right preposition: Choose the correct sentence: Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Sentence Correction
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time target: 35 seconds
Question
Choose the correct sentence:
Options
- She is married to a doctor.
- She is married from a doctor.
- She is married of a doctor.
- She is married with a doctor.
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: A. She is married to a doctor.
Worked solution
- The fixed expression is married to someone.
- Married with is a common transfer from other languages, but it is wrong in English.
Answer: She is married to a doctor.
The idea
Prepositions after common verbs are idioms to be memorised: married to, angry with a person but about a thing, different from, capable of, insist on, comply with.
Shortcut. Married takes the same 'to' as engaged to and wedded to. In English 'married with' means having something alongside, as in 'married with two children', never the spouse.
Common trap. "She is married with a doctor." carries over the 'with' (ke saath) of Hindi and other Indian languages, so it sounds right to many candidates, but English uses married to.