Choose the most appropriate preposition:
You must apologise ______ him _______ the wrong you have done him.
The most appropriate preposition in the given sentence is ‘to; for’. Prepositions are words that join different parts of the sentence and help in connecting them. Prepositions are used to express relationships between different words in a sentence. In the given sentence, the prepositions ‘to’ and ‘for’ are used to express the relationship between the subject ‘you’ and the object ‘him’ in the sentence.
• ‘To’ is a preposition that is used to express direction or movement towards someone or something.
• ‘For’ is a preposition that is used to express the purpose of something or for expressing possession.
In the given sentence, the speaker is expressing the need to apologise to someone for wrong done to them. Therefore, the preposition ‘to’ is used to express the direction or movement of the apology and ‘for’ is used to express the purpose behind the apology. Hence, the correct option is C.
To summarise, the correct option is C. ‘to; for’. The preposition ‘to’ expresses the direction or movement of the apology and ‘for’ expresses the purpose behind the apology.
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