Gerund Phrases Quiz 15 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍

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1. What is the gerund phrase in the following sentence?Making a grilled cheese sandwich is pretty easy.

2. When you know the length of the base and the height, calculating the area of a triangle is easy.

3. Identify the function of the gerund. Drinking coffee is my saving grace in the mornings.

4. What is the function of the gerund phrase?The worst way to spend a Saturday afternoon is babysitting a pack of crying children.

5. What is the word "playing" ?

6. Sorting through old photographs, we found a portrait of our grandfather.

7. What is the function of the gerund in the following sentence? Will you help me with carrying these boxes upstairs?

8. Identify the function of the gerund or gerund phrase in each sentence:Leaving Moscow changed Nureyev's career forever.

9. Competition is trying to do better than your opponent.

10. Identify the gerund phrase in the following sentence:Promoting the rights of women was the focus of her speech.

11. What is the verb in the sentence? Many people have started making an effort.

12. Is this a gerund phrase? Avoiding the area where she slipped allowed her to bump into the cute boy from her Chemistry class.

13. _____ about other cultures makes people more tolerant.

14. Is this a gerund phrase? Hoping to earn a decent grade, I studied with my best friend each night after practice.

15. "Peter's hair needs washing." What role is the gerund 'washing' playing in the sentence?

16. What is the gerund phrase?Karla's ambition is hitting two home runs in one game.

17. Identify the participle phrase!Laughing loudly, the boy is amused by the clown.

18. Our girls always enjoyed walking in the rain and wading in the puddles after a thunderstorm.

19. I WAS THINKING IN _____ A NOVEL ABOUT MY LIFE.

20. After sleeping all afternoon, it was difficult to go to bed at my regular time.

21. A baby's ftrst teeth _____ are generally the lower incisors.

22. After the budget crisis, the city of Westford stopped funding the construction of bike lanes and crosswalks.

23. Sharpening the pencils was a duty of the office assistant.

24. Where is the participle in the next two sentences?Dancing queen. Feel the beat from the tambourine.

25. Find the INFINITIVE PHRASE in the following sentence. Preston wants to run for office in the next election.