Grammatically wrong quote

I don't know why you've concluded you can't use "sic" in academic writing. The term simply means that you're quoting the source material verbatim.

Wang concluded that "A tend to choosed [sic] B".

But "[sic]" can make it seem like you're calling attention to an error, and it sounds like you're especially sensitive to this connotation.

I'm not sure it's necessary to worry about the authors growing upset with you for correcting a grammatical error. For all anyone knows, it was a typesetting or editing error. No reasonable author would assert that their publications are error free.

Wang concluded that "A tend to [choose] B".

I agree that editors, reviewers, and readers could get upset with you by quoting text with spelling or grammatical errors.

In the context of academic publication, I would not change a quotation without drawing attention to the change (as with the brackets above, for example).

With academic work today, accuracy is non-negotiable. It is not acceptable to present modified work as if the original author wrote it that way.

The three main ways to handle corrections of obvious typos are:

1. Add sic after the typo to indicate that the error was in the original: “... choosed (sic) ...”;

2. Correct the word, but place it in square brackets: “... [chose] ...”; or

3. Paraphrase and cite: They did this by choosing ... [XYZ2021]. Follow your department’s style guides regarding citations and referencing.