My exam question?

Question

I had an exam yesterday and this question was challenging for me>jack is not the kind of man____ work.>1. had avoided 1. avoiding 1. to avoid 1. avoids I answered 2 and someone said I was wrong. What is the correct and why please.

Answer 1

Hey!

So,Avoid is a verb and the purpose of verbs is to describe.

"Jack is not the kind of man AVOIDING work" is grammatically incorrect because the form of the sentence does not match.

The sentence is describing to you what kind of man Jack is not.

The sentence is also infinitive, in that it does not mention a particular tense, meaning it doesn't mention Jack not being the kind of man in the past, present, or future.

Given that we know that avoid is a verb, the sentence is describing Jack, and it is an infinitive description, it is clear that the correct answer will also be an infinitive description.

Therefore, the correct answer is TO AVOID.

Jack is not the kind of man TO AVOID work.

The word TO is used to indicate that a verb is infinitive.

The form of the sentence and the form of the answer has to match in order to be correct.

Hope this helped!