Gerund

1. Blowing bubbles on a windy day is a fun activity for children

• Bubbles

• Activity

• Blowing

• Children

2. Piling too much laundry into a washing machine will cause it to malfunction

• Washing

• Malfunction

• piling

• Cause

Answer explanation

3. Eating ice cream on a hot day can be a good way to cool off.

• Eating

• Hot

• Cool

• Day

4. Which sentence has a gerund phrase?

• Gambling at the casino, Jeff lost his money.

• To finish in first place, you have to run really fast.

• Mya, my favorite aunt, loves to cook.

• Collecting stamps is my hobby.

5. A gerund phrase functions as a

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Noun

Answer explanation

6. What is the gerund/gerund phrase in the following sentence?

Swimming is good exercise.

• Is

• Good

• Swimming

• Exercise

7. What is the gerund/gerund phrase in the following sentence?

Helen enjoys sketching the sunset.

• Helen

• Enjoys

• Sketching

• The sunset

Chanyeol enjoys ___________________ to music.

• Listen

• To listen

• Listening

• Listens

9. My parents suggested ___________ by bus.

• Travel

• Travel to

• To travel

• Traveling

10. One of my employees failed ................... the deadline

• To meet

• Meet

• Meeting

• Meet up