Multiple choice

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

Can it then fail to throw light for us on the way that human imagination works, and more particularly social, collective, and popular imagination?

  1. Bare infinitive, simple verb

  2. Bare infinitive, simple infinitive

  3. Complex infinitive, bare infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive, simple infinitive

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A Correct answer
Explanation

'Fail' is the bare infinitive complement of modal 'can', 'works' is a simple verb.