Discussion
Fill in the blank with appropriate word.
Try __________ being late for office.
Answer: D
The answer is to avoid: Try to avoid being late for office.
Try to + verb means to make an effort to do something, which is the sense of this advice. The verb avoid is then followed by a gerund, being late, so the full pattern is try to avoid being late.
Try avoid leaves out the needed to, and try avoided uses a past form where a base form is needed. Try avoiding would mean experimenting with avoidance to see the result, a different sense, and it stacks two -ing forms (avoiding being), which the sentence avoids.
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