Q24
EnglishVerbs, Tenses & Agreement
Fill in the blank with the appropriate infinitive: ______ is human.
- a.To laugh
- b.To err
- c.To read
- d.To save
Answer: (B) To err
'To err is human; to forgive, divine' is a famous line from Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711); it means that making mistakes is natural to human beings. Grammatically, the infinitive 'To err' works as a noun and is the subject of the sentence. 'Err' means to make a mistake (noun: error; adjective: erroneous).