Need Help with a Question from an ACT Prep Book

marvin100
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:36:34 +0000

@axlethetraveller - it’s an idiom. “Right + infinitive” is the correct collocation and “right of -ing” is non-idiomatic. It resembles constructions like “capable of -ing” (not “capable + infinitive”–compare with “able + infinitive,” which is correct, and “able of -ing,” which is not).