This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Gerunds – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gerunds Quiz 27 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the sentence below, jogging is the gerund. What is its function in the sentence? Tim enjoys jogging every morning. A) Subject. B) Object of the Preposition. C) Direct Object. D) Complement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct Object. 2. ''Exercising is good for your body." A) Subject. B) Direct Object. C) Subject Complement. D) Object of a Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject. 3. Caroline loves reading about history, she hopes to visit some sites she read about. What is the gerund? A) Loves. B) Read. C) History. D) Reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reading. 4. Identify how the underlined gerund phrase is being used in the sentence: A) Subject. B) Object of the preposition. C) Direct object. D) Predicate noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predicate noun. 5. 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. 6. Identify the gerund phrase.Hauling packages on litters simplified work for early workers. A) Hauling packages. B) Hauling packages on litters. C) Litters simplified work. D) For early workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hauling packages on litters. 7. Mary insists on ..... at MacDonald's tonight. A) Eat. B) Eating. C) Eaten. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating. 8. 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. 9. Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase.Peyton received ten thousand dollars for solving the budget crisis. A) Simple Subject. B) Direct Object. C) Predicate Nominative / Subject complement. D) Object of the Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Object of the Preposition. 10. What part of speech is shown in the list below? Above, from, over, around, before, below A) Action Verbs. B) Linking Verbs. C) Prepositions. D) Conjunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prepositions. 11. Waving their hands, the spectators cheered the runners. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 12. Which word is the gerund? I am interested in hiring someone to replace the gutters on my house A) I am interested. B) Hiring. C) Someone. D) Replace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hiring. 13. Knitting is her favorite winter hobby.What is in red in the sentence above? A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) Not a verbal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gerund. 14. Identify the rule of using bare infinitives:I would rather watch a film about disasters than experience one. A) Giving advice. B) After modals. C) Talking about preference. D) Giving permission. E) Forcing sb to do sth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talking about preference. 15. My favorite hobby is ..... A) Read. B) To read. C) Reading. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reading. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Identify the participle:The dog wearing the red collar is Mack's pet. A) Red. B) Wearing. C) Collar. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wearing. 19. 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. 20. What is the RED phrase? Singing her heart out, the toddler knew all the words to Fancy. A) Participle. B) Gerund. C) Infinitive. D) Prepositional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Participle. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. What does a gerund end in? A) -ly. B) -ed. C) -ing. D) -s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ing. 24. Which option is a Past Participle? A) Talk. B) Talking. C) Talked. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talked. 25. In some countries it's important ..... correctly in public. A) Dress. B) To dress. C) Dressing. D) None of above. 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