Don t forget telling Jane to call me about going to swim

Don't forget to... so we're down to B and D.

The problem with B is the "call me about to go swimming"... had it been "call me about swimming" or "call me to go swimming" it could have worked. Both together is poor sentence construction. Thus we must go with D.

Hope this helps!
-Ron

Hi, IMO D

In SC it is best to start approach of solving with meaning and then grammar rules.
Choice A - telling Jane what is verb ing modifying? it cannot modify forget
Choice B - about to go swimming - it is unidiomatic and also the meaning is distorted "about to go swimming"
Choice C - again wrong meaning :about the telling of Jane....(it cannot be the telling of Jane)
Choice E - verb ing telling, of calling is unidiomatic, about to go swimming (are they about to go swimming - no, Jane is supposed to be informed about going to swimming)

D clears all these ambiguities - correct idiom, to tell, to call correct infinitive, about going swimming correct present participle modifying swimming.

Hope this helps

I picked D for the same explanations.

But I still wonder:

(1) go to swim vs go swimming, which one is better?
(2) idiom: "Don't forget to tell X to do Y" is a good syntax? Cause I see "to tell X to do Y" is quite unidiomatic (just my feeling )

Anybody can shed light on?

Thanks

A little clarification here:
Ad. 1: This is generally correct. However, VeritasPrepRon made me revise my post and I realized that I forgot to explain as follows:

"Do not forget telling Jane to call me...": The form "telling" indicates that it happened in the past. So, what the author is saying is: "Dude, do not forget the time when I worked there and you would tell Jane (every Friday) to call me."
As in: "I regret not studying": I was not studying in the past and now I regret that.*

"Do not forget to tell Jane to call me...": The form "to tell" indicates that it will happen in the future. So, what the author is saying is: "Hey pal, remember to tell Jane to call me!"
As in: "I regret not to study": I will not be able to study for the exam and I regret that.*


*Examples from GMAT Club Ultimate Grammar.

Forget Telling is incorrect. It should be forget to tell. Hence, B and D left.

a) telling Jane to call me about going to swim --> Incorrect
b) to tell Jane that she needs to call me about to go swimming --> Too wordy
c) about the telling of Jane to call me of going swimming. --> Awkward.
d) to tell Jane to call me about going swimming --> Correct
e) telling Jane of calling me about to go swimming --> Incorrect

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