Question

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the infinitive verb to complete the sentence:
She said that she had rather not _________ him.
a. met
b. meets
c. meet
d. to meet

Answer 1

Hint: Verbs are used to indicate the action of the subject on an object in a sentence. But, tenses are the ones that dictate when the action took place. There are three broad classes of tenses in English grammar. They are present tense depicting the action that is taking place, past tense for actions that already took place and future tense for the ones in the future. Here, past tense has a subdivision known as past perfect tense which includes the usage “had + past participle of the verb”.

Complete answer:
The sentence is in format “had + past participle of the verb” similar to the one required by past perfect tense.
Now, looking at the options given above,
Met: is the appropriate word for the sentence in the above format, since it is the past participle form of meet.
Meets: is not applicable is this sentence since it is not the correct word form required for the sentence.
Meet: the tense form of the word is wrong and hence is not the answer.
To meet: is the infinitive form of the verb. It is not applicable here.

Hence, Option a, is the correct answer to the above question.

Note: There might be a confusion with met and meet. But, since the sentence requires past participle of the verb, Option a is the answer.