Question

1. Fill in the blanks with prepositions: a. Owing _______ his ill health, he retired _____ business​

Answer 1

The blanks can be filled with suitable preposition as follows:

Owing to his ill health, he retired from business.

What are prepostions?

• In English Grammar, we describe a preposition as a word which is placed before a noun or pronoun in a sentence so that the words in a sentence can be related.
• The prepositon 'to' and 'from' has multiple functions.
• When the preposition 'to' is placed after 'owing' ; owing to refers to 'the reason for'.
• We use the prepostion 'from' as a reason for something to occur. for example, 'from business', 'from plague' etc.