Question
Choose the correct alternative which will improve the
quoted part of the given sentence. He was urgently in need 'to get his eye operation'.Solution
To get his eye operation is grammatically incorrect.The preposition to is used to indicate that there is movement from one place to another. Here there is no movement of anything so to is incorrect. The preposition of is used when belonging to something .Here what he needs is eye operation. So he was in need of eye operation.
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