Question

The pens are...... the drawers.
fill in the blank with prepositions
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Answer 1

The blank can be filled with a preposition as follows:

The pens are in the drawers.

What is a preposition?

• In the field of English grammar, a preposition can be described as a part of speech placed before a noun or noun phrase which connects all the other words of a sentence.
• The preposition 'in' is used when something is present inside another thing.
• As in the above statement, 'pens' will be present inside the 'drawers' hence the correct preposition to be used will be 'in'.

Answer 2

Answer:

The pens are in  the drawers.

Explanation:

Prepositions are words that precede and tell the time, direction, position, spatial arrangement of noun, pronoun, noun phrases with respect to rest of the sentence. Some commonly used prepositions are in, on, at, for, beside etc. Some examples of use of prepositions in sentences are: -

   1. Radha was sitting on a bench.

   2. Are you going for a walk?

   3. Medha always talks with her friend.

The preposition 'in'

• is used to indicate a location
• is used while doing something
• is used to indicate opinion specify day, month, season, year
• is used to indicate color, shape and size.

In the given sentence, The pens are....the drawers, The preposition used should indicate location of the pens with respect to drawers so the preposition 'in' is most appropriate.