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I saw the sentence "People with diabetes are prone to infections".
I've checked in the dictionaries (see attached picture) and it's written there that the meaning of "prone to" is "having a tendency to...".
I'd like to know if it's possible to put a verb after the preposition "to" of "prone to" (as happens with "tend to do..." )or it's possible to put noun only as in the sentence above ("to infections")
You can use both verbs and nouns.
...prone to jump
...prone to disease
It simply matters that the verb or noun used makes sense given the context.
