Question

The train was late "--------" fifty minutes

Answer 1

Answer:

by is the correct answer

Answer 2

The train was late by fifty minutes.

• The given question is a sort of verbal ability question where there will be a sentence with missing words, and we are instructed to complete the sentence with the most suitable word or phrase from the given options.
• Prepositions are words that show the relationship of one word in a sentence to another word.
• In a sentence, a preposition can tell: 1. the position of something, 2. the direction in which something is going, 3. the time when something happens or 4. the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence.
• The preposition ‘by’ in the sentence is used for showing how or in what way something is done, particularly to denote that the transport is late.

Hence, The train was late by fifty minutes.

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