Read the following article. Find and correct the twenty-five errors in the use of infinitives. In some cases the form of the infinitive is incorrect. In other cases infinitives aren't used where they should be used or
are used where they shouldn't be used. In some cases the infinitive is correct.
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In order ^ enjoy a full life in ones later years, it is vital maintaining close relationships and to
keep physically active. To involve oneself in absorbing interests is important, as this involvement
encourages a person to expanding and engage in healthy activity.
There is example after example to illustrates how rewarding life can be at an older age. For
instance, an elderly widower in California has learned how to knitting, an activity that allows him not
only artistic expression, but also opportunities meeting women available for to socialize with. Now he
is so often invited dine at ladies' homes that he hasn't needed cook a meal in four months. In New York
State, a seventy-two-year-old grandmother took up to run six years ago and last year ran all twentysix miles of the New York Marathon. This year she expects being awarded a prize for having made the
most improvement in speed within one year. A Canadian couple t developed their lifelong interest
in to ice skate into the most successful skating school in eastern Ontario, and they are preparing open
another school near Boston. In California, a ninety-two-year-old woman who is a Scrabble champion
wrote a how-to book on the subject, and she volunteers teach less accomplished players her
strategies. These and other examples serve demonstrate that a can-do attitude leads to a rewarding
life. Elders should be encouraged accept realistic challenges like these.
To having regular and strenuous activities is important, even for people in their eighties and
nineties. It's never too late to begin physical training. The older person who does so, however, should
not hope attain the strength or endurance he or she had in midlife; it is enough just work out for
twenty-five minutes three times a week. It would not be realistic suddenly be able to go to downhill
ski or tango dance, but one might certainly expect being able to walk a little farther and breathe a little
easier with regular conditioning.
As for physical living arrangements, older people are often better off living alone, rather than
with their children. Even people with impaired health often can manage live alone. If an older person
needs help with housekeeping, he or she should arrange to have this help.
To summarize, senior citizens are often advised taking life easy, but this advice is clearly
wrong. Older people should avoid to be alone and should be as social as possible. They can and should
have friendships, participate in rewarding activities, and lead active and healthy lives.
