Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The doctor advised him [to avoid eating sweets a…

Question

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].

1. A. avoiding sweets and doing regular exercise
2. B. to avoid sweets and to exercises regularly
3. C. to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly (Correct answer)
4. D. to not eat sweets and do exercises

Correct Answer

Option C — to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly.

Key Points

• 'Advised' takes a 'to + infinitive', and the two actions must be parallel: 'to avoid eating sweets and to exercise regularly'.
• The distractors break parallelism or grammar — 'to exercises' is wrong, and the gerund version doesn't follow 'advised … to'.
• Keep both halves in the same infinitive form.