Question

Fill in the gap with an appropriate preposition and rewrite the sentence - justify your choice if possible.

She was punished ........................ stealing a saree.

Answer 1

 For..   will be the right answer...

Answer 2

ANSWER:

She was punished for stealing a saree.

EXPLANATION:

Prepositions are the words that precede with noun or pronoun to show the relation with other element in the clause. ‘at’, ‘on’,’of’ etc are some of them.  

• ‘at’ is used when the reference is with respect to locations.
• ‘in’ is used with reference to unspecific times during years, days, hours etc.
• ‘with’ is used with reference to indicate being involved or being together.
• ‘of’ is used with reference to ‘belonging to’ or ‘related to’.
• ‘for’ is used to indicate something.

The given sentence is indicating that an action ‘stealing’ occurred.

So, preposition ‘for’ is used for the given sentence.