Discussion
Direction : Select the appropriate preposition to fill in the blanks in the following sentences.
He is not familiar ______ this locality.
Answer: D
The correct preposition is with: familiar with this locality.
A person is familiar with a thing, place or subject they know well: 'He is familiar with the rules'. The other construction reverses the roles: a thing is familiar to a person, as in 'This locality is familiar to him'.
Since the subject here is the person ('He'), 'to' is wrong. 'Familiar from' and 'familiar about' are not idiomatic.
Both patterns can describe the same situation: 'He is familiar with this locality' and 'This locality is familiar to him' mean the same.
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