This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Gerunds – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gerunds Quiz 32 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. Gerunds look like verbs, but act like .....? A) Nouns. B) Adjectives. C) Adverbs. D) Total idiots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nouns. 3. The gushing water was causing a health hazard. What is the participle? A) Hazard. B) Gushing. C) Health. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gushing. 4. 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. 5. A gerund is a verb form that acts like ..... A) A verb. B) A noun. C) An adjective. D) An adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A noun. 6. 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. 7. She decided ..... (study) Biology. A) Study. B) To study. C) Studying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To study. 8. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:Workers started using logs as rollers for litters. A) Workers started. B) Using logs. C) Using logs as rollers. D) Using logs as rollers for litters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using logs as rollers for litters. 9. 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,. 10. Identify the gerunds:Grocery shopping before eating is leading to some disgusting food choices. A) Shopping, eating, leading, disgusting. B) Shopping, eating, leading. C) Shopping, eating. D) Leading, disgusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shopping, eating. 11. When I am trying to save money, I hate buying clothes.What is the gerund? A) Am trying. B) Buying. C) To save. D) Hate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buying. 12. 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) Restoring an old car. B) Restoring an old car is one way. C) To increase its value. D) Plunging value, fading appearance. E) Is one way to increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restoring an old car. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. 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 verb. C) It's an adjective. D) It's a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It's a noun. 16. Gerunds that follow an action verb have what function? A) Subject. B) Object of the Preposition. C) Predicate Noun. D) Direct Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct Object. 17. What is the gerund/gerund phrase in the following sentence? Good hobbies for children can be fishing or painting. A) Good hobbies. B) For children. C) Can be. D) Fishing or paining. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fishing or paining. 18. Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase.Gordon is not comfortable with the idea of flying over the ocean. 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. 19. Identify the function of the gerund.Fransisco gives swimming all of his energy and time. A) Direct object. B) Subject. C) Predicate nominative. D) Indirect object. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect object. 20. Maeila stopped ..... hello to her friends A) Says. B) Saying. C) To say. D) Said. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To say. 21. It was a ..... news for the boy. A) Shock. B) Shocking. C) Shocked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shocking. 22. Which word is a gerund? Listening to that man give a speech is sometimes difficult to endure. A) Speech. B) That man. C) Listening. D) Difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Listening. 23. 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. 24. What is the function of the gerund in the following sentence? The police arrested him for speeding . A) Subject. B) Direct object. C) Predicate nominative/noun. D) Object of prepositional phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Object of prepositional phrase. 25. Find the gerund:Climbing is not as easy as it looks. A) Easy. B) Climbing. C) Looks. D) Not. 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