Discussion
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
He was accused with stealing the documents from the office.
Answer: C
Correct answer: of
Accuse takes the preposition of: he was accused of stealing. The verb it is most often confused with is charge, which takes with: he was charged with theft. Learning the pair together is the surest way to keep them apart. A wider group of verbs takes fixed prepositions in the same way, and each must be memorised rather than reasoned out: blame someone for, suspect someone of, convict someone of, acquit someone of, punish someone for, prosecute someone for and indict someone for. Note that accuse of is followed by a noun or a gerund - of stealing, of theft - never by an infinitive. The passive form used here, was accused of, keeps the same preposition as the active they accused him of.
Post your comment
Please log in or register to post a comment.
Examination Categories
- SSC Exams
- Banking Exams
- Teaching Exams
- Civil Services Exams
- Railways Exams
- Engineering Recruitment Exams
- Defence Exams
- State Government Exams
- Police Exams
- Insurance Exams
- Nursing Exams
- Other Government Exams
- NRA CET
- PG Entrance Exams
- Campus Placement
- MBA Entrance Exams
- CUET and UG Entrance
- Judiciary Exams
- Regulatory Body Exams
- Software Development