Have no fear, #quiz is here.
📋 The mountains were covered ... snow.
🔴 by
🔵 with ✅
⚪️ in ✅
As it's always been with the Passive, BY means a doer, WITH means a tool.
In the logic of English, snow is not viewed as a doer, rather a tool (of nature?), therefore we use "covered with snow"; and using IN in this context is just an alternative way to put it.
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💡 Choose the preposition.
📋 I saw the statue which was made ... marble.
🔴 from
🔵 of
⚪️ with
📋 The mountains were covered ... snow.
🔴 by
🔵 with ✅
⚪️ in ✅
As it's always been with the Passive, BY means a doer, WITH means a tool.
In the logic of English, snow is not viewed as a doer, rather a tool (of nature?), therefore we use "covered with snow"; and using IN in this context is just an alternative way to put it.
=== === === ===
💡 Choose the preposition.
📋 I saw the statue which was made ... marble.
🔴 from
🔵 of
⚪️ with