English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

English Grammar
English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The doctor advised him to avoid eating sweets and doing exercise regularly.


Options:

  1. avoiding sweets and doing regular exercise
  2. to avoid sweets and to exercises regularly
  3. to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly
  4. to not eat sweets and do exercises

Right Answer: to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly

The original sentence is faulty because 'doing exercise regularly' is joined to 'to avoid eating sweets', which makes it read as though the doctor advised avoiding exercise as well. Two separate pieces of advice are intended, so both must appear as parallel to-infinitives. Option three supplies exactly that with 'to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly', keeping the structures balanced and the meaning clear. Option one changes the form after 'advised him', option two contains the ungrammatical 'to exercises', and option four mixes a negative infinitive with a bare verb. Hence option three is correct.

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