This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Gerunds – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gerunds Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following sentence is an example of ..... "Trembling with fear, Greg hid in the corner." A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Infinitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 2. Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase.BJ compares temperatures in Mrs. Kennedy's class to living in an igloo. A) Direct Object. B) Simple Subject. C) Predicate Nominative / Subject complement. D) Object of the Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Object of the Preposition. 3. What is a gerund phrase? A) The clock was on the wall. B) Follow the rules. C) Reading her book. D) I like to eat food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reading her book. 4. How is the gerund being used? More people should consider saying hello to others in the hallways. A) Direct object. B) Predicate nominative. C) Subject. D) Indirect object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct object. 5. How is the gerund in the sentence being used? Josephine's bad habit is gritting her teeth. A) Direct object. B) Object of preposition. C) Subject. D) Predicate nominative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predicate nominative. 6. In the sentence below, traveling is the gerund. What is its function in the sentence? Traveling gives one a chance to observe many wonderful places. A) Subject. B) Object of the Preposition. C) Complement. D) Direct Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject. 7. In the sentence, "Removing his glasses, the professor shook his head with disappointment, " what is the underlined phrase? A) Appositive phrase. B) Participial phrase. C) Infinitive phrase. D) Gerund phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participial phrase. 8. A gerund functions as a ..... A) Adverb. B) Noun. C) Verb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun. 9. Eating ice cream on a windy day can be a messy experience if you have long untamed hair. A) Can be a messy experience. B) Eating ice cream. C) Eating ice cream on a windy day. D) If you have long untamed hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eating ice cream on a windy day. 10. Fill in the blank using a gerund.When do you practice ..... the piano? A) Touching. B) To touch. C) To play. D) Playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Playing. 11. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:Grandma thanked me for cooking dinner. A) Grandma thanked me. B) For cooking dinner. C) Cooking dinner. D) Cooking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooking dinner. 12. Gerunds always act like what? A) Nouns. B) Adjectives. C) Adverbs. D) All three. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nouns. 13. Choose the gerund phrase in this sentence:You should stop texting; you're going to cause an accident. A) Going to cause an accident. B) Stop texting. C) You're going to cause. D) You should stop texting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Going to cause an accident. 14. The students are looking forward to ..... Level 6. A) Finishing. B) Finish. C) Finished. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finishing. 15. What type of verbal is in red? Interrupted lessons would distress them both. A) Participle. B) Not a verbal. C) Infinitive. D) Gerund. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 16. Through planning you can make studying easier, and you end up becoming more efficient with your time. What are the gerunds? A) Studying, can make. B) Planning, end, becoming. C) Planning, studying, becoming. D) Planning, studying. E) Can make, end up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Planning, studying, becoming. 17. Opening the door, he looks inside.Which word is a participle? A) Opening. B) Looks. C) Inside. D) Door. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opening. 18. In the sentence below, swimming is the gerund. What is its function in the sentence? My favorite sport is swimming. A) Direct Object. B) Subject. C) Object of the Preposition. D) Subj Compl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subj Compl. 19. Curling up and reading a book is an enjoyable way of spending a rainy day. What is/are gerund phrase(s)? A) Curling up. B) Reading a book. C) Curling up and reading a book, spending a rainy day. D) Spending a rainy day. E) Is an enjoyable way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curling up and reading a book, spending a rainy day. 20. Fill in the blank by using a gerund.I hate ..... carrots in my soup. A) To have. B) Having. C) All. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having. 21. What is the function of these gerunds? Jack Ruch loves eating corn as much as Shawn loves looking at memes. A) Appositive. B) Direct object. C) Indirect object. D) PN. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct object. 22. A gerund always ends with a ..... A) -d. B) -ed. C) -ing. D) -t. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ing. 23. Identify the underlined word group.Mrs. Newell enjoys hiking with her family . A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerund. 24. The teacher simply cannot excuse sleeping in class. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Verb. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerund. 25. What is always present before an infinitive? A) "a". B) "the". C) "to". D) "an". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "to". 26. Identify the gerund. A) Halim. B) Cheating. C) Punished. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheating. 27. The subject in "Swimming in the ocean has been Sharon'spassion since she was five years old." is: A) Sharon. B) Swimming. C) She. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swimming. 28. Identify the participle(s). Braking too late, Judy hit the stopped car in front of her. A) Braking. B) Stopped. C) Braking, stopped. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Braking, stopped. 29. Gerunds look like verbs, but act like .....? A) Total idiots. B) Nouns. C) Adverbs. D) Adjectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nouns. 30. The gushing water was causing a health hazard. What is the participle? A) Water. B) Health. C) Gushing. D) Hazard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gushing. 31. Find the gerund phrase:I thoroughly enjoy jogging three miles everyday . A) Jogging. B) Enjoy jogging three miles. C) I thoroughly enjoy. D) Jogging three miles everyday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jogging three miles everyday. 32. A gerund is a verb form that acts like ..... A) A noun. B) An adverb. C) A verb. D) An adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A noun. 33. Sarah was afraid of the flying monkey when she went to the zoo. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 34. She decided ..... (study) Biology. A) Study. B) To study. C) Studying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To study. 35. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:Workers started using logs as rollers for litters. A) Workers started. B) Using logs as rollers. C) Using logs. D) Using logs as rollers for litters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using logs as rollers for litters. 36. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence? Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey. A) Sweeping across the night sky,. B) The bats hunted. C) Their prey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sweeping across the night sky,. 37. Identify the gerunds:Grocery shopping before eating is leading to some disgusting food choices. A) Shopping, eating. B) Shopping, eating, leading. C) Shopping, eating, leading, disgusting. D) Leading, disgusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shopping, eating. 38. When I am trying to save money, I hate buying clothes.What is the gerund? A) Buying. B) Hate. C) To save. D) Am trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buying. 39. Identify the gerund phrase(s) in the following sentence:Restoring an old car is one way to increase its plunging value and fading appearance. A) Is one way to increase. B) Plunging value, fading appearance. C) Restoring an old car. D) Restoring an old car is one way. E) To increase its value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restoring an old car. 40. Fill in the blank by using a gerund.Marta doesn't mind ..... to the soccer game. A) To go. B) Going. C) Watched. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Going. 41. Identify the type of participle used in this sentence:The disease spread at an alarming rate. A) Present participle. B) Past participle. C) Perfect participle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Present participle. 42. Exploring can be dangerous in unknown territory. What is the function of the underlined gerund in this sentence? A) It's an adverb. B) It's a noun. C) It's an adjective. D) It's a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's a noun. 43. Gerunds that follow an action verb have what function? A) Predicate Noun. B) Subject. C) Object of the Preposition. D) Direct Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct Object. 44. What is the gerund/gerund phrase in the following sentence? Good hobbies for children can be fishing or painting. A) Good hobbies. B) Fishing or paining. C) For children. D) Can be. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fishing or paining. 45. Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase.Gordon is not comfortable with the idea of flying over the ocean. A) Simple Subject. B) Predicate Nominative / Subject complement. C) Object of the Preposition. D) Direct Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Object of the Preposition. 46. Identify the function of the gerund.Fransisco gives swimming all of his energy and time. A) Predicate nominative. B) Subject. C) Indirect object. D) Direct object. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect object. 47. Maeila stopped ..... hello to her friends A) To say. B) Saying. C) Says. D) Said. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To say. 48. It was a ..... news for the boy. A) Shock. B) Shocking. C) Shocked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shocking. 49. Which word is a gerund? Listening to that man give a speech is sometimes difficult to endure. A) Listening. B) That man. C) Speech. D) Difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Listening. 50. In the 1950s and 60s, a unique trend in housing impacted American culture, the rise of suburbs. How is the underlined word functioning in the sentence? A) As a noun that is the object of a preposition. B) As the main verb in the sentence. C) As an adjective modifying the noun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As a noun that is the object of a preposition. 51. What is the function of the gerund in the following sentence? The police arrested him for speeding . A) Direct object. B) Object of prepositional phrase. C) Subject. D) Predicate nominative/noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Object of prepositional phrase. 52. Find the gerund:Climbing is not as easy as it looks. A) Looks. B) Not. C) Easy. D) Climbing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climbing. 53. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:The competing figure skater practiced gliding across the ice. A) The competing figure skater. B) Gliding across the ice. C) Competing figure skater. D) Practiced gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gliding across the ice. 54. How is the following gerund or gerund phrase (in red) functioning in the sentence? While waiting for her friend at the coffee shop, Jessica enjoyed sipping her cappuccino . A) Indirect object. B) Object of the preposition. C) Direct object. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct object. 55. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:You should first consider writing a rough draft for your paper. A) For your paper. B) Writing a rough draft for your paper. C) Writing a rough draft. D) You should first consider. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing a rough draft for your paper. 56. How is the underlined gerund acting in the sentence? As a struggling student, he gave reading a try. A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adverb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 57. Her constant whispering to girls around her began to irritate the teacher. A) Indirect object. B) Object of preposition. C) Subject. D) Predicate nominative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 58. How is the following gerund or gerund phrase (in red) functioning in the sentence? Watching fireflies on a summer night makes me think of my childhood. A) Object of the preposition. B) Subject complement. C) Subject. D) Direct object. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 59. What is the Participial Phrase in this sentence:People planning to study biology must meet the science teacher. A) People planning. B) Planning to study biology must meet the science teacher. C) Planning to study biology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Planning to study biology. 60. What is the Infinitive Phrase in this sentence:My greatest dream is to climb Mount Everest. A) To climb. B) Greates dream is to climb. C) To climb Mount Everst. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To climb Mount Everst. ← 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