Close to doing vs. close to do

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Please, need an authority to settle a dispute:

You’re dangerously close to being evicted - I know it's a gerund after a preposition.

Is it at all possible to use an infinitive here:

You’re dangerously close to be evicted? - even Grammarly underlines it in here!

Thanks in advance,

YETY

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

YETYlandIs it at all possible to use an infinitive here:

No.

Anonymous · Answer

"You're dangerously close to being evicted." is correct.

"You're dangerously close to be evicted." is ungrammatical. (And the sequence of words, "close to do," is also ungrammatical.)

If you want to use the phrase, "to be evicted," in a similar context, you'd have to say one of the following:

"You're going to be evicted in the next few days."

"It won't take much for you to be evicted."

"If you want to be evicted, just keep doing what you've been doing."

"You can expect to be evicted in the next few days."

"I don't want to be evicted, but I'm expecting it to happen soon."

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