Discussion
(a) He is confined in bed by fever.
(b) I have nothing to say to the contrary.
(c) Either you will obey me or I will punish you.
(d) I have no pen to write with.
Answer: A
The incorrect sentence is He is confined in bed by fever.
The idiom is 'confined to bed', and the illness is introduced with with: 'He is confined to bed with fever.' Both prepositions in the given sentence are wrong.
The other three are correct. 'Nothing to say to the contrary' is the standard phrase for having no objection. 'Either you will obey me or I will punish you' places either and or before two parallel clauses, as the rule requires. 'I have no pen to write with' correctly keeps the preposition at the end, since one writes with a pen.
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