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30 May 2010 — Suggest

How would you improve this sentence? Doctors are suggesting teaching children to swim early.

 

 

 

 

Click each option to read the feedback as more than one option may be correct.

1.
         Doctors are suggesting to teach children to swim early.
2.
         Doctors are suggesting that parents teach children to swim early.
3.
         Doctors are suggesting the method of teaching children to swim early.
 

try + infinitive – attempt
try + gerund – experimenting with a different approach or method
method (n.) – way of doing something, technique, procedure 
strategy (n.) – a plan or action for achieving something or solving a problem

  

Solution - lightbulb Gerund / Infinitive Switching in Progressive Sentences  | Subjunctive Verbs

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