Choose the correct sentence:

2019

Choose the correct sentence:

  1. A.

    Please listen to your teacher.

  2. B.

    Please listen towards your teacher.

  3. C.

    Please listen your teacher.

  4. D.

    Please listen of your teacher.

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Correct answer: A

Concept

Many English verbs are followed by a fixed preposition (a "dependent preposition") that links the verb to its object. The verb "listen" is intransitive in this sense: when you pay attention to a person or thing, English requires "listen" + "to" + object. The choice of preposition is governed by convention, not by general meaning, so only one preposition is idiomatically correct.

Application

Here the object is "your teacher", so the verb phrase must be "listen to your teacher". This makes "Please listen to your teacher." the well-formed request.

Contrast

The other versions each break the fixed pattern:

  • "listen towards your teacher" uses a direction word; "towards" describes movement in space, not the act of attending.

  • "listen your teacher" omits the preposition entirely, so the verb has no link to its object and the sentence is incomplete.

  • "listen of your teacher" uses a possession/relation word; "of" never connects "listen" to the person being heard.

Result

Only "Please listen to your teacher." uses the required "listen to" pattern, so it is the correct sentence.

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