WREN & MARTIN's English grammar-The gerund-practice

 

The Gerund: 10 Practice MCQs

1. _______ is a good exercise.

A. To walking

B. Walking

C. Walk

D. Walked

2. He is fond of _______ cricket.

A. play

B. to play

C. playing

D. played

3. I am tired of _______ for you.

A. wait

B. waiting

C. to wait

D. waited

4. _______ is forbidden in this area.

A. Smoking

B. Smoke

C. To smoking

D. Smokes

5. We were prevented from _______ the house.

A. enter

B. to enter

C. entering

D. entered

6. I like _______ poetry.

A. read

B. reading

C. to reading

D. reads

7. He is guilty of _______ a lie.

A. tell

B. telling

C. to tell

D. told

8. Success depends on _______ hard.

A. work

B. to work

C. working

D. worked

9. _______ a noise, the boy woke up.

A. Hear

B. To hear

C. Hearing

D. Heard

10. I am looking forward to _______ you.

A. see

B. seeing

C. seen

D. saw

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Answer Key

Question	Answer	Explanation
1	B	'Walking' acts as the subject of the sentence (Verbal Noun).
2	C	'Playing' is the object of the preposition 'of'.
3	B	After the preposition 'of', the gerund form 'waiting' is used.
4	A	'Smoking' acts as the subject of the verb 'is'.
5	C	Prepositions like 'from' are followed by a Gerund.
6	B	'Reading' acts as the object of the transitive verb 'like'.
7	B	The Gerund 'telling' is used after the preposition 'of'.
8	C	The Gerund 'working' is used after the preposition 'on'.
9	C	'Hearing' here acts as a gerund-like participle describing the cause.
10	B	In the phrase 'looking forward to', 'to' is a preposition, hence it requires the gerund 'seeing'.