Fill in the blank with the correct preposition:
As a junior clerk, Mohan was not privy ______ the decisions taken at the board meeting.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → to
Complete sentence: As a junior clerk, Mohan was not privy to the decisions taken at the board meeting. Mohan was too junior to be told what the board decided.
| Option | Used to show | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) in | being inside a place or a thing | The milk is in the fridge. |
| (2) of | something belongs to or is part of something else | The roof of the bus was leaking. |
| (3) with | being together, or the thing used to do something | Asha cut the paper with a pair of scissors. |
| (4) to (answer) | fixed with “privy”: allowed to know something secret or private | Only the head cook was privy to the family’s pickle recipe. |