Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.
Doctors advise heart patients to abstain ________ fried and oily food.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → from
Complete sentence: Doctors advise heart patients to abstain from fried and oily food. Here the patients must keep away from fried food.
| Option | Used to show | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) of | goes with words like beware of or afraid of. “Abstain” never takes “of”. | Beware of the dog. |
| (2) with | being together with something. Abstaining means staying away, the opposite idea. | Riya eats rice with dal. |
| (3) from (answer) | fixed with “abstain”, which always takes “from”: to keep yourself away from something you like or want | During the fast, my grandmother abstains from salt. |
| (4) against | opposition. We can warn someone against fried food, but we abstain from it. | The doctor warned him against smoking. |