Identify Spot the error in the given sentence. "He denied to attend the meeting citing personal reasons."
to attend
We must find the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error in the way the verb is completed.
The verb 'deny' does not take a 'to + infinitive' after it; it is normally followed by a gerund (the -ing form) or by a noun/clause.
So a structure like 'denied to attend' is incorrect; the accepted form is 'denied attending' or, better, 'refused to attend'.
The word 'refuse' takes the infinitive, but 'deny' does not, which is why 'to attend' clashes with the verb 'denied'.
The segment 'to attend' is therefore the error, because it wrongly pairs an infinitive with a verb that demands a gerund.
The other segments, 'He denied', 'the meeting' and 'citing personal reasons', are all correctly constructed.
Hence the error lies in the segment to attend.
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