Complete the sentence with an -ing complement using (damage the mosaic): The tourist admitted ___.
Richtige Antwort
- damaging the mosaic
- to damaging the mosaic
- having damaged the mosaic
- to having damaged the mosaic
Erklärung
Damaging the mosaic directly supplies the -ing complement selected by admitted, while to damaging the mosaic uses the equally standard prepositional to followed by an -ing form. To damage the mosaic is not accepted because infinitival to cannot introduce the admitted action in this construction.