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.

Don't read ______ the lines. Read the lines.

The correct answer is between.

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• ​There are some fixed prepositional phrases given below:
  • ​by dint of, out of jealousy, in danger, read between the lines, by car/bus/train, owing to, on a trip, for a change, etc.
• Example:
  • She said she could afford it, but reading between the lines I don't think she has enough money.
  ​Hence according to the phrases given above, 'between' will be the correct choice in the given blank.
• This phrase 'read between the lines' means to find meanings that are intended but that are not directly expressed in something said or written.
   

Correct Sentence: Don't read between the lines. Read the lines.

• There are some verbs/nouns/adjectives which are followed by fixed preposition given below:
  • ​Exonerate from, refrain from, suspicious of, interested in, inured to, accused of, predilection for, respite from, vexed at, etc.
• Example:
  • ​After spending some time on the island they became inured to the hardships.