Gerund Phrases Quiz 22 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Gerund Phrases – Quiz 22
1. Riding my bike around town is my favorite hobby.
A) Riding my bike around town.
B) Around town.
C) Riding my bike.
D) Is my favorite hobby.
2. IDENTIFY THE GERUND(S) Piling too much laundry into a washing machine will cause it to malfunction.
A) Malfunction.
B) Washing.
C) Cause.
D) Piling.
3. Find the gerund:Climbing is not as easy as it looks.
A) Climbing.
B) Is.
C) Looks.
D) None of above.
4. Which of the following is an infinitive phrase?.
A) To sing in the choir.
B) To a better future.
C) To the movies.
D) To new heights.
5. EXERCISE 1:IDENTIFYING GERUND PHRASES. Identify the gerund phrase in the sentence. His household chores were setting the table before dinner and washing the dishes afterwards.
A) His household chores.
B) Setting the table.
C) Setting the table & washing the dishes.
D) Setting the table before dinner & washing the dishes afterwards.
6. Searching for an answer, I looked in a current dictionary.
A) Participial phrase.
B) Gerund phrase.
7. Gerunds are similar to verbs, but they also name things, so they act like _____ .
A) Adjectives.
B) Verbs.
C) Nouns.
D) Adverbs.
8. What is the gerund phrase? Playing hide and go seek is a classic childhood game.
A) Playing hide and go seek.
B) Hide and go seek.
C) A classic childhood game.
D) There is no gerund phrase.
9. Does this sentence contain a gerund phrase?They talked about climbing mountains in distant lands.
A) Yes.
B) No.
10. Find the Gerund Phrase:Coloring eggs is an activity that belongs to another holiday.
A) To another holiday.
B) Coloring.
C) Coloring eggs is an activity.
D) Coloring eggs.
11. Identify the participle phrase.The girls sitting under the tree were talking about the Korean idol.
A) Were talking.
B) The girls.
C) Korean idol.
D) Sitting under the tree.
12. The purpose of cost accounting is _____ involved in producing and selling a good or service.
A) That determines the costs.
B) To determine the costs.
C) As a determination of its costs.
D) The costs determined.
13. The student was laughing so hard that he started crying.
A) Yes.
B) No.
14. What is the gerund phrase in this sentence? I'm really not interested in studying map-making for the rest of my life.
A) Studying map-making.
B) Not interested in studying.
C) For the rest of my life.
D) I'm really not interested in studying map-making.
15. Is the bold word a verb or a gerund? Getting ready for school takes longer for my sister than for me.
A) Gerund.
B) Verb.
16. Observing religious holidays is common throughout the United States.
A) Observing.
B) Is common throughout the United States.
C) Observing religious holidays.
D) Observing religious holidays is common.
17. A gerund can act as an appositive in a sentence.
A) False.
B) True.
18. Is this phrase infinitive or gerund?:She is going to sleep?.
A) Both .
B) Gerund.
C) Infinitive.
D) None of above.
19. Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence.-Are you planning to climb the mountain on Saturday?.
A) To climb the mountain.
B) Are you planning.
C) On Saturday.
D) To climb.
20. Choose the gerunds in this sentence:Eating strawberries without washing them might make you sick.
A) Washing them might make you sick.
B) Eating strawberries.
C) Eating strawberries without washing them.
D) Washing them.
21. Energy can be defined as the ability _____ .
A) Doing work.
B) Work to be done.
C) To do work.
D) Do working.
22. In the following sentence, what is the function of the infinitive phrase?To smile at others brings joy to yourself.
A) Adjective.
B) Subject.
C) Direct object.
D) Adverb.
23. What is the gerund phrase?Photographers enjoyed taking pictures of California's forty-niners.
A) Taking pictures of California's forty-niners .
B) Photographers enjoyed.
C) Of California's forty-niners.
D) None of above.
24. Bob wants to live close to where he works.
A) Appositive phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
C) Infinitive phrase.
D) Prepositional phrase.
E) Gerund phrase.
25. The following sentence is punctuated correctly:I go on too many dates but I can't make them stay. That's what people say.
A) True.
B) False.