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Zorluk: ZorPrepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Despite expressing strong reservations during the preliminary deliberations on the structural reform, the board members were ultimately compelled to acquiesce ______ the executive committee's final resolution. Which preposition correctly completes the sentence above?

  1. inCevap
  2. B
    to
  3. C
    with
  4. D
    into

Cevap

The preposition 'in' correctly completes the sentence.
The verb 'acquiesce' conventionally governs the preposition 'in' when denoting reluctant or quiet compliance with a directive, decision, or agreement.

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1
Identify the main verb governing the blank in the sentence.
The target verb is 'acquiesce'.
The blank follows 'acquiesce' and precedes the noun phrase 'the executive committee's final resolution'.
2
Determine the standard dependent preposition required by 'acquiesce'.
The verb 'acquiesce' takes the preposition 'in' to indicate passive agreement or submission to a decision or plan.
In standard formal English, 'acquiesce in' is the fixed prepositional collocation required for this syntactic structure.

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