2022 · Q35
Directions: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four options. Select whichever preposition or determiner you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
A woman who always connives ________ her children to hide their faults, is their worst enemy.
EnglishPrepositions and Determiners
- Awith
- Bby
- Cat
- Dfor
Explanation
To connive with someone means to conspire or collude secretly with them, so with correctly links the woman to her children as partners in hiding faults. Connive at would mean to overlook, which reverses the sense. By and for do not form idioms with connive in this context. The secret-collusion sense makes with correct.