Fill-in-the-blank Preposition Question
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9. Some modern exhibitions present common manufactured items ---- museum settings, suggesting that an artwork's value can come from the artist's choice and the intellectual thought ---- them, not the craft. A) at / from B) in / with C) of / against D) within / behind E) for / under
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Preposition and Sentence Completion
Let's write down the sentence with the two blanks so we can analyze each one step by step.
Some modern exhibitions present common manufactured items [ Blank 1 ] museum settings, suggesting that an artwork's value can come from the artist's choice and the intellectual thought [ Blank 2 ] them, not the craft.
We need to find the correct pair of prepositions from the options given that best fits the grammatical structure and meaning.
Let's first focus on the first blank. We have a noun phrase, museum settings, which represents a physical or conceptual environment.
First Blank Analysis
To describe something located inside or surrounded by a setting, we typically use the prepositions in or within.
- in museum settings (Option B)
- within museum settings (Option D)
Using prepositions like at, of, or for would be grammatically incorrect or awkward in this context. This narrows our options down to B and D.
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