Fill in the blank with the correct auxiliary (simple past) “I purposely ______ meet you during my last visit to Kashmir.” Choose the word that correctly forms the simple past with the bare infinitive “meet.”

Given data

• Time marker: “during my last visit” → simple past.
• Structure after auxiliary: bare infinitive “meet.”

Concept/Approach
Simple past negative uses “did not / didn’t + verb (bare).” Hence “didn’t meet.”

Option analysis
didn’t — correct auxiliary + bare verb.avoided — would require a gerund: “avoided meeting,” not “avoided meet.”refused to / declined to — would need the word “to” already in the sentence; here only one blank is provided.

Final Answer
didn’t