English Grammar – Gerunds and Infinitives- SET 1 Welcome to your English Grammar - Gerunds and Infinitives- SET 1 1. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. It’s important _______ your hands before eating. wash to wash washing to washing None 2. Cloze Passage (5 Blanks – Mixed Gerunds and Infinitives): Fill in the blanks with suitable gerunds or infinitives. Rohit loves [to draw / drawing / drawn] cartoons in his free time.He plans [joining / to join / joined] an art class soon. His sister enjoys [paint / painting / to paint] as well. 3. Transform the underlined part into a sentence using a gerund. She is good at how she sings. 4. Complete the sentence using a gerund or infinitive. My parents encouraged me _______ part in the school play. take taking to take None 5. Rearrange the jumbled words/phrases to form a meaningful sentence. Raj: Why did you stop in the middle of the race?Meena: because / running / tired / I / was / of 6. Spot the error in the sentence and provide the correction. She enjoys to play the violin every evening.Error: Correction: 7. Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. We decided _______ a picnic since the weather was perfect. having had have to have None 8. Fill in the blank with the correct form (gerund or infinitive) of the verb in brackets. He promised his homework after dinner. (do) 9. Fill in the blank with the correct option: My sister enjoys _______ stories to our little cousins every night. told to tell telling tell None 10. Read the conversation and complete the reported sentence appropriately. Ravi: I like to swim in the mornings.Nina: Really? I prefer reading at that time. Ravi told Nina that he liked %BLANK% in the mornings, while Nina said she preferred %BLANK% at that time. Choose the correct pair of options to fill the blanks: to swimming, to read to swim, reading to swim, to read swimming, reading None 11. Multi-Select (Identify all correct gerunds from the list): Select all the gerunds from the options below: jumping played running to eat swimming 12. Omission Exercise – One word missing in each line:Write the missing word along with the word before and after it. No. Text Word Before Omission Word After eg He wanted go home early. wanted to go 1. We practiced hard won the game. hard 1. won 2. She avoided late by running quickly. avoided 2. late Time's up Leave a Reply Cancel replyCommentEnter your name or username to comment Enter your email address to comment Enter your website URL (optional) Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
