avoid sth being / to be too

Hi,

Which sentence is more idiomatic?

Sentence1:
We need to avoid the presentation to be too complex.
Sentence2:
We need to avoid the presentation being too complex.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by uktous

Which sentence is more idiomatic?

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I'm neither a teacher nor a native-speaker, so I may be wrong but I couldn't see why these sentences have something to do with idioms. But if you meant
to ask which one of them was grammatical, I'd say that the second one is grammatical.

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