Question

5. Fill in the blank with appropriate 'preposition":
Man has been in quest
knowledge about the universe.​

Answer 1

Man has been in a quest FOR knowledge about the universe

For is the preposition

Answer 2

Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition

Man has been in quest  for knowledge about the universe.

Explanation:

• A Preposition is a part of speech that relates the position of a noun with respect to another noun or a verb with a noun or verb.
• A preposition thus determines the position of a word with respect to the sentence.
• In the given sentence, ' Man has been in quest  - knowledge about the universe.' Man is the subject of the sentence.
• The rest of the sentence falls under the predicate.
• Quest is a noun that means a search or a journey.
• In this case the journey is a search correlated with the noun knowledge.
• The preposition linking quest and journey is 'for'.  We always go in search for knowledge.
• Hence the most appropriate preposition is 'for'.

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