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Zorluk: OrtaPrepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Complete the sentence below by supplying the appropriate preposition(s) in the blank(s).

Cevap:The committee chairman emphasized that the proposed regulatory policy was fraught 【with】 serious legal ambiguities, warning that any unilateral enforcement by the agency would be in contravention 【of】 statutory provisions.

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The prepositions 'with' and 'of' correctly complete the sentence as 'fraught with' and 'in contravention of'.
The correct prepositions are 'with' for the first blank and 'of' for the second blank. The adjective 'fraught' takes the dependent preposition 'with' when describing situations involving risk, danger, or ambiguities. Furthermore, the formal prepositional idiom 'in contravention of' correctly expresses the idea of acting against established statutory provisions.

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1
Identify the dependent preposition required by the adjective 'fraught'.
The adjective 'fraught' collates exclusively with the preposition 'with' when referring to being filled or laden with something unpleasant or undesirable (e.g., 'fraught with danger/ambiguities').
Using prepositions such as 'by', 'of', or 'to' after 'fraught' breaks standard English collocation rules.
2
Identify the correct multi-word prepositional phrase structure for 'in contravention'.
The complex prepositional phrase is 'in contravention of', which means in violation of or in conflict with a rule, law, or statutory provision.
The noun 'contravention' takes 'of' to connect to its object in legal and administrative contexts.

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