Question

He is bent ___ making mischief. Prepositions

Answer 1

He is bent on making mistakes.

• The correct preposition to be used here is 'on'.

• The phrasal verb, 'bent on' refers to being determined to do something.

• Prepositions are mostly used before nouns or pronouns and links them in a sentence.

• The other prepositions that can be used with 'bent' are over, at, down, etc.

• The several meanings of the word 'bent' is:

Twisted or crooked/corrupt/inclined.

Answer 2

Here is the correct answer along with its explanation:

He is bent on making mischief.

Explanation

We used preposition 'on' only because 'bent on doing something' is an idiomatic expression. It is used as one unit. The meaning of 'bent on+Present Participle' is 'determined to do something bad'.

Note: Whenever we use this idiom we use the following structure:

‘bent+on+present participle’