Question

My mother went to the grocery store (for buying) food for our upcoming camping trip.

Using an infinitive, what is the correct way to replace the words in parenthesis.

A) My mother went to the grocery store to buy food for our upcoming camping trip.
B) My mother went to the grocery store for to buy food for our upcoming camping trip.
C) My mother went to the grocery store to be buying food for our upcoming camping trip.
D) My mother went to the grocery store for to be buying food for our upcoming camping trip.

25. pts

Answer 1

The correct answer is A.

Tip- read the sentences out loud and see which one makes sense.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is A) "My mother went to the grocery store to buy food for our upcoming camping trip."

The infinive phrase has different functions within a sentence. In this case, the infinitive phrase "to buy food" is acting as an adverb since it is answering why the mother went to the grocery store.

Option B) is grammatically incorrect as it uses "for" followed by "to buy".