Explanation

Several words are sometimes used as adverbs or sometimes used as prepositions.

A word is a preposition when it governs a noun or a pronoun, It is an adverb when it does not.

Don’t run around.  “Around” is an adverb here

Don’t loiter around the street. “Around” is a preposition here

Explanation

Preposition means before a position.

A word placed before noun or a pronoun to show its relation to some other word in the sentence.

He ordered a plate of rice is the correct answer.

Do not use for after order (as main verb).

Order is a main verb here not noun.

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A 66-year-old Irish man plunged into freezing waters and swam for a mile to claim a Guinness World Record as the world's oldest ice mile swimmer.

Ger Purcell of Corbally, Limerick, said he trained for several months to swim in frigid waters, and he broke the record during the Ice Mile challenge at the Shannon Rowing Club in Limerick.

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Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended.

 France’s president from 2007 to 2012 had played an “active role” in forging a “corruption pact” with his lawyer and a senior magistrate to obtain information on a separate investigation into political donations, the leading judge declared, and there was “serious and concurring evidence” of collaboration between the three men to break the law.

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The British government will provide 2.8 million pounds ($4 million) to pursue a five-nation bid for a World Cup with Ireland.

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Over the last few years, Facebook has been heavily criticized for its impact on news distribution, and its subsequent influence on political and societal shifts. Now, we're about to get a case study in whether those criticisms are actually justified, with The Social Network set to block all news content in Australia due to disagreement over the Australian Government's proposed new media bargaining laws.

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The largest and the busiest inland waterways in the world is The Great Lakes and the rivers St. Lawrence in U.S.A. The Great Lakes–St.

Lawrence system, the other half of the midcontinental inland waterway, is connected to the Mississippi Ohio via Chicago by canals and the Illinois River.

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The case was filed in early 1968 and implicated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others in conspiring with India against the stability of Pakistan.

The case is officially called State vs. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others, but is popularly known as Agartala Shoŗojontro Mamla (Agartala conspiracy case) as the main conspiracy was purported to have taken place in the Indian city of Agartala in Tripura state, where Sheikh Mujib's associates met Indian military officials

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Muʿtazila is a rationalist school of Islamic theology that flourished in the cities of Basra and Baghdad, both now in Iraq, during the 8th to the 10th centuries CE.

The Mu'tazilites were celebrated during the Islamic Golden Age

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The Prime Minister of Pakistan needed 172 votes to win the confidence vote.

The speaker said that in 2018, Prime Minister Imran had been elected to the post with 176 votes. “Today (06-03-2021), he has secured 178 votes,”