This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Gerunds – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gerunds Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You can make someone's day simply by smiling at her. A) Object of preposition. B) Indirect object. C) Direct object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Object of preposition. 2. IDENTIFY THE GERUND in this sentence: A) Me. B) Headache. C) Listening. D) Gave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Listening. 3. What is the gerund in the following sentence? Becoming a doctor takes years of serious study. A) Years. B) Becoming. C) Study. D) Takes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Becoming. 4. A more disastrous activity for long haired people is blowing giant bubble gum bubbles with the car windows down. A) Blowing giant bubble gum bubbles. B) With the car window down. C) Blowing giant bubble gum bubbles with the car window down. D) More disastrous activity for long haired people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blowing giant bubble gum bubbles with the car window down. 5. What part of speech is shown in the list below? is, am, was, were, are A) Action Verbs. B) Conjunctions. C) Prepositions. D) Linking Verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linking Verbs. 6. IDENTIFY THE FUNCTION OF THE GERUND: A) Direct object. B) Subject. C) Appositive. D) Object of preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Object of preposition. 7. What's the verbal? It is important to feel fabrics before you buy them. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infinitive. 8. Identify the VERB in this sentence:Blowing bubbles on a windy day is a fun activity for children. A) Blowing. B) Is. C) Activity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is. 9. What identifies or describes the subject? (It follows a linking verb) A) Subjects. B) Object of Prepositions. C) Subject Complements. D) Direct Objects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject Complements. 10. Which words are gerund "I prefer (1)walking to (2)cycling." A) (2). B) -. C) (1). D) (1), (2). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (1), (2). 11. Susan is knitting a sweater for her grandson.What is in red in the sentence above? A) Not a Verbal. B) Gerund. C) Participle. D) Infinitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not a Verbal. 12. Find the gerund phrase:Flying above the lake in this time is a little dangerous. A) This time is a little dangerous. B) Flying. C) Flying above the lake. D) Above the lake in this time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flying above the lake. 13. "Reading is an important skill." A) Direct Object. B) Subject. C) Object of a Preposition. D) Subject Complement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 14. Identify the phrase. Waiting to begin the quiz, Jack started to tap his pencil. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 15. Identify the participle used in this sentence:Having done his work, he left the place. A) Present participle. B) Perfect participle. C) Past participle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perfect participle. 16. Make sure not ..... any piece of news before checking the source firts. you could be spreading. A) Sharing. B) Sharingg. C) Share. D) To share. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To share. 17. How is the gerund in the sentence being used? The baby began crying when he dropped his pacifier on the floor. A) Object of preposition. B) Subject. C) Indirect object. D) Direct object. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct object. 18. In the sentence below, hanging is the gerund. What is its function in the sentence? Hanging the photo frames symmetrically proved more difficult than Tom thought. A) Direct Object. B) Subject. C) Object of the Preposition. D) Predicate Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 19. What part of speech is a gerund? A gerund is a form of a verb that acts as a ..... A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Subject. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 20. What is the receiver of the action (verb)? A) Direct Objects. B) Subject Complements. C) Object of Prepositions. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Objects. 21. What's the verbal? The new student, taking a tour of the school, is here from Florida. A) Participle. B) Infinitive. C) Gerund. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 22. Identify the rule of using infinitives:The rescue team stopped to rest after many hours of work. A) To explain purpose. B) After adj. afraid/scared/happy/glad/sad. C) After the words "too" and "enough". D) After verbs such as refuse/allow/expect/ decide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To explain purpose. 23. What is the infinitive/infinitive phrase in the following sentence? Eating a balanced diet allows a person to keep healthy. A) Eating a balanced diet. B) Balanced. C) Allows a person. D) To keep healthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To keep healthy. 24. Which sentence uses a gerund phrase as the object of the preposition? A) During English class, Shelby tutors everyone around her. B) Writing long essays is Lance's favorite English activity. C) Wyatt loves singing grammar songs. D) Leanna is excited about helping gophers build homes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leanna is excited about helping gophers build homes. 25. What is the gerund/gerund phrase in the following sentence? My favorite hobbies are fishing and painting. A) A good hobby. B) For boys. C) Can be. D) Fishing and painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fishing and painting. 26. Gerunds work as ..... in sentences. A) Verbs. B) Adjectives. C) Nouns. D) Adverbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nouns. 27. How is the underlined word functioning? Kicking is frowned upon at the daycare. A) Verb. B) Participle. C) Gerund. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gerund. 28. In the sentence below, jogging is the gerund. What is its function in the sentence? Tim enjoys jogging every morning. A) Object of the Preposition. B) Direct Object. C) Complement. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Object. 29. ''Exercising is good for your body." A) Object of a Preposition. B) Direct Object. C) Subject Complement. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subject. 30. Caroline loves reading about history, she hopes to visit some sites she read about. What is the gerund? A) History. B) Loves. C) Read. D) Reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reading. 31. Identify how the underlined gerund phrase is being used in the sentence: A) Direct object. B) Subject. C) Predicate noun. D) Object of the preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predicate noun. 32. When the ..... Form of the verb is used as a noun in a sentence we call it ..... A) V1 and gerunds. B) Ing and gerunds. C) V2 and gerunds. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ing and gerunds. 33. Identify the gerund phrase.Hauling packages on litters simplified work for early workers. A) Hauling packages. B) Hauling packages on litters. C) For early workers. D) Litters simplified work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hauling packages on litters. 34. Mary insists on ..... at MacDonald's tonight. A) Eat. B) Eating. C) Eaten. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating. 35. Identify the participle(s). William almost stepped on the snake hidden in the clump of monkey grass. A) Stepped. B) Hidden. C) Stepped, hidden. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hidden. 36. Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase.Peyton received ten thousand dollars for solving the budget crisis. A) Object of the Preposition. B) Direct Object. C) Predicate Nominative / Subject complement. D) Simple Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Object of the Preposition. 37. What part of speech is shown in the list below? Above, from, over, around, before, below A) Linking Verbs. B) Action Verbs. C) Conjunctions. D) Prepositions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prepositions. 38. Waving their hands, the spectators cheered the runners. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 39. Which word is the gerund? I am interested in hiring someone to replace the gutters on my house A) Hiring. B) Someone. C) I am interested. D) Replace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hiring. 40. Knitting is her favorite winter hobby.What is in red in the sentence above? A) Not a verbal. B) Infinitive. C) Gerund. D) Participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gerund. 41. Identify the rule of using bare infinitives:I would rather watch a film about disasters than experience one. A) Giving permission. B) Talking about preference. C) After modals. D) Giving advice. E) Forcing sb to do sth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talking about preference. 42. My favorite hobby is ..... A) Read. B) To read. C) Reading. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reading. 43. We couldn't get out because of the car parked behind us. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 44. How is the infinitive being used? Alan refused to quit. A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 45. Identify the participle:The dog wearing the red collar is Mack's pet. A) Red. B) Collar. C) Wearing. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wearing. 46. Identify the gerund/gerund phrase. A) Gives swimming. B) Swimming in summer. C) Energy and time. D) All of his energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swimming in summer. 47. What is the RED phrase? Singing her heart out, the toddler knew all the words to Fancy. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Infinitive. D) Prepositional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 48. What's the verbal? Running up and down the stairs, my children gave me a headache. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 49. Do you like writing in the summertime? What is in red in the sentence above? A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) Not a verbal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gerund. 50. Which option is a Past Participle? A) Talk. B) Talking. C) Talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talked. 51. In some countries it's important ..... correctly in public. A) Dress. B) To dress. C) Dressing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To dress. 52. Find the Gerund Phrase:Making New Year's Resolutions is another tradition to think about adopting. A) Making. B) Is another tradition. C) Making New Year's Resolutions. D) To think about adopting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making New Year's Resolutions. 53. The baby began crying when he dropped his pacifier on the floor. What is the gerund? A) Dropped. B) Baby. C) Crying. D) Pacifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crying. 54. Let's go ..... on Saturday! A) To shopping. B) Shop. C) Shopping. D) Shops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shopping. 55. Mark goes skiing every winter season. A) Gerund as noun. B) Gerund after preposition. C) After the verb "go" when talking about activities. D) After certain verbs and phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After the verb "go" when talking about activities. 56. More people should consider saying hello to others in the hallways. A) Predicate nominative. B) Indirect object. C) Direct object. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct object. 57. Choose the role of the gerund in each sentence:Watching Netflix after dinner on weekends is my new favorite pastime. A) Comes after verbs as an object. B) Subject of the sentence. C) No gerunds here. D) Comes after a preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject of the sentence. 58. Identify the participle that is used as an adjctive:The bright lamp produced a pleasing effect. A) Bright. B) Produced. C) Pleasing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pleasing. 59. Josephine's bad habit is gritting her teeth. A) Predicate nominative. B) Object of preposition. C) Direct object. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predicate nominative. 60. Do you think studying is time well spent? What is in red in the sentence above? A) Infinite. B) Participle. C) Not a verbal. D) Gerund. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gerund. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesVerbs QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesGerunds Quiz 1Gerunds Quiz 2Gerunds Quiz 3Gerunds Quiz 4Gerunds Quiz 5Gerunds Quiz 6Gerunds Quiz 7Gerunds Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books