Gerund Phrases Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Gerund Phrases – Quiz 17
1. Identify the gerund phrase as the object in the following sentence:'I enjoy reading books.'.
A) Playing video games.
B) Watching movies.
C) Cooking dinner.
D) Reading books.
2. IT'S IMPORTANT _____ HOW TO DRIVE BEFORE BUYING YOUR OWN CAR.
A) TO SPEAK.
B) TO KNOW.
C) SPEAKING.
D) KNOWING.
3. What is the gerund phrase? One of their favorite activities is catching bugs.
A) One of their favorite activities.
B) There is no gerund phrase.
C) Catching bugs.
D) Their favorite activities.
4. I'm not interested _____ poems.
A) Writing.
B) To write.
C) Write.
D) In writing.
5. What is the phase in red below:After a long day at school and work, LaShae found her roommate Ben eating the last of the leftover pizza.
A) Gerund.
B) Participial.
6. Identify the gerund phrase:Cooking at higher altitudes often requires recipe adjustments.
A) Cooking at higher altitudes.
B) Cooking at.
C) Cooking at higher.
D) At higher altitudes.
7. Benjamin enjoys _____ to his iPod.
A) Listening.
B) Listen.
8. What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence?Making a grilled cheese sandwich is pretty easy.
A) Making a grilled cheese sandwich.
B) Making.
C) Making a grilled cheese.
D) Is pretty easy.
9. When you know the length of the base and the height, calculating the area of a triangle is easy.
A) Calculating the area of a triangle.
B) When you know the length.
C) When you know the length of the base and the height.
D) The area of a triangle.
10. Gerunds look like verbs, but act like _____ ?.
A) Nouns.
B) Adjectives.
C) Adverbs.
D) None of above.
11. Identify the function of the gerund. Drinking coffee is my saving grace in the mornings.
A) Direct object.
B) Object of the preposition.
C) Subject.
D) Predicate nominative.
12. What is the function of the gerund phrase?The worst way to spend a Saturday afternoon is babysitting a pack of crying children.
A) Object of the preposition (OP).
B) Indirect object (IO).
C) Direct object (DO).
D) Subject complement (SC).
E) Subject (S).
13. A gerund is a form of a verb that acts as a _____ .
A) Adjective.
B) Noun.
C) Verb.
D) Adverb.
14. What is the word "playing"?.
A) Gerund .
B) Verb.
C) Participle.
D) None of above.
15. Sorting through old photographs, we found a portrait of our grandfather.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
16. Running for president is a serious ambition.
A) Running for president.
B) A serious ambition.
C) For president is a serious ambition.
D) None of above.
17. What is the function of the gerund in the following sentence? Will you help me with carrying these boxes upstairs?.
A) Direct Object.
B) Subject.
C) Predicate noun.
D) Object of a preposition.
18. Identify the function of the gerund or gerund phrase in each sentence:Leaving Moscow changed Nureyev's career forever.
A) Direct Object.
B) Object of the Preposition.
C) Subject Complement.
D) Subject.
19. Competition is trying to do better than your opponent.
A) Competition is trying to do better.
B) Trying to do better than your opponent.
C) Better than your opponent.
D) Competition is trying.
20. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:Promoting the rights of women was the focus of her speech.
A) Promoting the rights of women.
B) Promoting the rights.
C) Was the focus of her speech.
D) Of her speech.
21. Francisco enjoys _____ more than spending time with his girlfriend Diana.
A) Swimming.
B) To swim.
C) Swim.
D) None of above.
22. What is the verb in the sentence? Many people have started making an effort.
A) Have started.
B) Making.
C) Effort.
D) People.
23. Is this a gerund phrase? Avoiding the area where she slipped allowed her to bump into the cute boy from her Chemistry class.
A) Yes.
B) No.
24. _____ about other cultures makes people more tolerant.
A) Learning.
B) To learn.
C) Learn.
D) None of above.
25. Is this a gerund phrase? Hoping to earn a decent grade, I studied with my best friend each night after practice.
A) Yes.
B) No.