Question

Spot the error and rewrite:

The Principal assured that he would look at the matter.​

Answer 1

The Principal assured that he would look into the matter

Answer 2

The Principal assured that he would look into the matter.

Explanation:

The Principal assured that he would look into the matter.

Prepositions are parts of speech which indicate the relation between a noun or pronoun and other elements in the following clause.

• They indicate position, state, time, surrounding, of an element with the noun or the pronoun.
• They are commonly classified into single, double, compound, etc.
• The most profoundly used prepositions are in, on, at, around, beside, into, onto, below, etc.
• In this case the Principal would have to look into the matter to be able to analyze the issue and resolve it.
• INTO in this context means to look within.
• The preposition at is wrong because it would mean to simply look at something and not do anything about it.

Examples:

1. He looked into the well.
2. They looked at the birds in the sky.