Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate word from the options given below:
What are you objecting ___?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → to
Verb + fixed preposition:
- The verb object (to oppose or disapprove of something) always takes to: object to something.
- This sentence: in a question the preposition moves to the end, so "You are objecting to what?" becomes "What are you objecting to?"
- Complete sentence: What are you objecting to?
Example: Many residents objected to the new flyover.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: of — Incorrect. Of shows belonging or relation; "object of" is used only for the noun (the object of the game), not the verb.
Example: The roof of the house was damaged.
Option 2: from — Incorrect. From shows a starting point or source; the verb object never takes it.
Example: She returned from Jaipur yesterday.
Option 4: by — Incorrect. By shows the doer of an action or the means; "objecting by" does not say what is opposed.
Example: The poem was written by Tagore.