Gerund Phrases Quiz 18 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Gerund Phrases – Quiz 18
1. "Peter's hair needs washing." What role is the gerund 'washing' playing in the sentence?.
A) Object of a preposition.
B) Subject complement.
C) Subject.
D) Direct object.
2. What is the gerund phrase?Karla's ambition is hitting two home runs in one game.
A) Hitting two home runs in one game .
B) Karla's ambition is hitting.
C) Is hitting two homeruns.
D) None of above.
3. Identify the participle phrase!Laughing loudly, the boy is amused by the clown.
A) The boy.
B) Laughing loudly.
C) Amused.
D) The clown.
4. Our girls always enjoyed walking in the rain and wading in the puddles after a thunderstorm.
A) Direct Object.
B) Subject.
5. I WAS THINKING IN _____ A NOVEL ABOUT MY LIFE.
A) PLAYING.
B) TO PLAY.
C) TO WRITE.
D) WRITING.
6. After sleeping all afternoon, it was difficult to go to bed at my regular time.
A) Yes.
B) No.
7. A baby's ftrst teeth _____ are generally the lower incisors.
A) To appear.
B) Appear.
C) In appearing.
D) Appearance.
8. After the budget crisis, the city of Westford stopped funding the construction of bike lanes and crosswalks.
A) Funding the construction of bike lanes and crosswalks.
B) After the budget crisis.
C) Stopped funding the construction.
D) The city of Westford.
9. How does the noun infinitive phrase function? Mr. Dillard's biggest worry is to find all of the instruments missing from his classroom.
A) Predicate nominative.
B) Object of the preposition.
C) Direct object.
D) Subject.
10. Sharpening the pencils was a duty of the office assistant.
A) Direct Object.
B) Subject.
11. Where is the participle in the next two sentences?Dancing queen. Feel the beat from the tambourine.
A) Dancing.
B) Beat.
C) Tambourine.
D) Queen.
12. Find the INFINITIVE PHRASE in the following sentence. Preston wants to run for office in the next election.
A) To run for office .
B) For office.
C) In the next election.
D) None of above.
13. Identify the gerund. If there are no gerunds, choose none. Walking is good exercise.
A) Walking.
B) Is.
C) Good.
D) Exercise.
E) None.
14. Find the Gerund Phrase:Making New Year's Resolutions is another tradition to think about adopting.
A) Is another tradition.
B) Making New Year's Resolutions.
C) To think about adopting.
D) Making.
15. What is the phase in red below:Walking on the beach, Delores dodged jellyfish that had washed ashore.
A) Gerund.
B) Participial.
16. What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence? Designing buses and cars is one thing you could be doing if you were to become a product engineer.
A) Designing buses and cars.
B) One thing you could be doing.
C) To become a product engineer.
D) None of above.
17. "asking" is:.
A) The subject.
B) A predicate nominative.
C) The object of a preposition.
D) A direct object.
18. The children continued counting the food donations at the fall festival.
A) Subject.
B) Direct Object.
19. " Being early is a wonderful social manner." The gerund phrase in this sentence functions as a /an.
A) Predicate Nominative.
B) Object.
C) Subject.
D) Object to a Perposition.
20. What is the gerund in the following sentence? Running for political office would be kind of exciting.
A) Running.
B) Exciting.
C) Office.
D) None of above.
21. Receiving a pilot's license is an important achievement.
A) Direct Object.
B) Subject.
22. Kicking the ball takes skills.
A) Kicking the ball.
B) Takes skills.
C) The ball takes skills.
D) None of above.
23. Joana, you can't just _____ what you want from the shop without paying.
A) Take .
B) To take.
C) Taking.
D) None of above.
24. Identify the gerund phrase:My dog's most annoying habit is hogging the middle of the bed.
A) Annoying side.
B) My dog's most annoying habit.
C) Hogging the middle of the bed.
D) Annoying habit is hogging.
25. We were all happy about _____ New Year in Paris.
A) To celebrate.
B) Celebrating.