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: She has the reputation to be a kind woman.


Options:

  1. to have kindness
  2. of being a kind woman
  3. of being the kind woman
  4. to be kind-hearted

Right Answer: of being a kind woman

The noun 'reputation' is idiomatically followed by the preposition 'for' or 'of' together with a gerund, not by a to-infinitive. The original phrasing 'reputation to be a kind woman' is therefore ungrammatical. Replacing it with 'of being a kind woman' produces the correct pattern 'She has the reputation of being a kind woman'. Option one changes the meaning and still reads awkwardly after 'reputation'. Option three inserts the definite article 'the', which wrongly implies one specific kind woman already known to the listener. Option four repeats the faulty infinitive structure. Hence option two is correct.

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