The phrase 'avoid to speak' is not correct in written English.
The correct phrase is 'avoid speaking'. Example sentence: I recommend avoiding speaking to her until the situation has been resolved.
Not wanting to go unnoticed, however, he accepted it via video, using cue cards Love Actually-style to avoid having to speak.
In two experiments, we examined the children's ability to identify responses to questions as violations of conversational maxims (to be informative and avoid redundancy, to speak the truth, be relevant, and be polite).
Once it opens, the museum may compel Brant, who normally avoids interviews, to speak more about his remarkable collection.
Jeb Bush would do well to learn from Wadhwa's precarious positioning, and to avoid the temptation to speak on behalf of any groups that have not voluntarily elected him to do so.
Employees acting as representatives of the company should be aware of their responsibilities in these forums, which they cannot avoid by purporting to speak in their 'individual' capacities".
The silent participant was invited to contribute by seeking eye contact and inviting gestures (such as nodding) but was not directly addressed in order to avoid urging her to speak, which could have led to unreliable or evasive answers [ 26].
In this area sisters and brothers were traditionally expected to avoid speaking to one another, and a sister was expected to crouch in her brother's presence and to show respect in other ways.
A little over three years later, our relationship had soured to the point that he banned Lib Dem special advisers from physically entering the Department for Education, hid on one occasion in the toilet to avoid speaking to [schools minister] David Laws, and let loose his somewhat unhinged advisers to brief against me, and even against [my wife] Miriam, in the press.
It's almost like people have forgotten that they have the right to communicate with each other," says Cosmo Jarvis, explaining why he's written a song – We Just Wanna Talk – about the lengths people go to avoid speaking to one another on the London Underground.
Pettitte voluntarily offered the most damaging evidence to Clemens's credibility, testimony that he should have avoided, allowing Clemens to speak for himself.
