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Prepositions after passive verbs: complete the sentence about moving prisoners Context: Robbers were arrested and then moved to a destination. Fill the blank with the correct preposition phrase: "The robbers were arrested and ______ prison yesterday." Choose the correct option.

Difficulty: Easy

Correct Answer: taken to

Explanation:


Given data

  • Structure: passive voice + motion to a place (prison).


Concept/Approach
Use take someone to for conveying a person to a destination; in passive it becomes “were taken to.” Bring depends on deictic perspective (toward the speaker) and sounds odd in narrative passive here. Into stresses entry, but the idiom is “taken to prison.”


Option analysis
taken to — correct collocation: “taken to prison.” ✅brought to — less natural in this passive narrative.brought into / taken into — focus on movement inside, not standard here.


Final Answer
taken to

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