His parent's hostile attitude ... him to leave

[^^vangiang^^]

Choose the best answer to fill in the blank
"His parent's hostile attitude ........ him to leave "
A. urged
B. drived
C. persuaded
d. made

I am pondering on A and B
Which one should i choose ?

[Skrej]

(B) isn't even a real verb, as 'drive' is an irregular verb, whose correct past tense is 'drove'. Otherwise, I agree the best root verb here is 'drive'.

(A) doesn't really make sense, because 'urged' has a sense of positive encouragement, counter to the negative hostility of the parents attitude.

(D) would be my next choice, except for the fact that we can't use the construction of 'made him to leave', so it's an invalid choice with this construction.

That leaves us with (C), which can work. However, I'd only choose it in this sentence because (B) is invalid, and (D) won't work with the construction as written.

Sounds like the question itself isn't written as well as it could be.
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[^^vangiang^^]

thanks for help
however, the answer in my book is A.urged and i'm confused with this
maybe i should ask someone for help to test my book

[Mister Micawber]

Yes, you should. C is the answer. Answer keys easily go wrong in textbooks, it seems.
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