{"id":31624,"date":"2025-06-22T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=31624"},"modified":"2025-06-22T05:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:26:23","slug":"around-or-round-preposition-m-beside-or-yet-which-one-is-correct-or-both-r-on-or-by-which-one-is-correct-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/around-or-round-preposition-m-beside-or-yet-which-one-is-correct-or-both-r-on-or-by-which-one-is-correct-or-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Around or round preposition (m) beside or yet, which one is correct or both? (r) on or by, which one is correct or both"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(I) around or round preposition (m) beside or yet, which one is correct or both? (r) on or by, which one is correct or both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-186.png 819w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-186-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-186-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-186-768x775.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the correct choices for each sentence from the image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(i) <strong>round<\/strong> is correct. \u201cRound\u201d is commonly used in British English to express circular motion. \u201cAround\u201d is also acceptable, especially in American English, so both are grammatically correct in this context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(m) <strong>beside<\/strong> is correct. \u201cYet\u201d is not a preposition, so it does not fit the structure or meaning of the sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(r) <strong>by<\/strong> is correct. \u201cBy chance\u201d is a fixed phrase in English that expresses something happening accidentally. \u201cOn chance\u201d is not a standard usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now for the explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prepositions are functional words used to show the relationship between nouns or pronouns and other elements in a sentence. They often describe direction, time, location, or introduce an object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In sentence (i), \u201cThe moon goes round the sun,\u201d both \u201cround\u201d and \u201caround\u201d are grammatically and semantically correct. They describe motion in a circular path. \u201cRound\u201d is more frequent in British usage while \u201caround\u201d is favored in American English. Despite the preference difference, both convey identical spatial meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sentence (m), \u201cHe sat beside me at dinner,\u201d demonstrates the use of \u201cbeside\u201d to indicate position. \u201cBeside\u201d specifically means \u201cnext to\u201d and accurately describes someone sitting adjacent to another. \u201cYet,\u201d on the other hand, functions as a conjunction or adverb, never as a preposition, making it incompatible with this sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In sentence (r), \u201cI met him on the way by chance,\u201d the phrase \u201cby chance\u201d is idiomatic. \u201cBy\u201d is the only grammatically accepted preposition in this collocation, conveying that the meeting happened unexpectedly. \u201cOn chance\u201d is not recognized in English and would be considered an error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding these distinctions in preposition use ensures clarity and grammatical precision in writing and speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-185.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-185.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-185-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-185-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-185-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I) around or round preposition (m) beside or yet, which one is correct or both? (r) on or by, which one is correct or both? The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Here are the correct choices for each sentence from the image: Now for the explanation: Prepositions are functional words used to show the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31627,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624\/revisions\/31627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}