E11 - Unit 7: Perfect Gerund vs Perfect Participle

Choose the correct answers (more than one):

>> Perfect gerund can be used ...

• to emphasise that the action was completed in the past

• as the subject of a sentence

• as an object after some verbs (admit, deny, forget mention, regret, remember,...)

• after prepositions

• to talk about the reason for the action in the main clause.

Choose the correct answers (more than one):

>> Perfect participle clauses can be used ...

• describe an action that happened before the action in the main clause.

• talk about the reason for the action in the main clause.

• as an object after some verbs (admit, deny, forget mention, regret, remember,...)

• after the subject of a sentence

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> I regret having eaten so much.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> Having cooked dinner, she set the table.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> Her greatest accomplishment is having travelled around the world.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> He felt guilty about having forgotten his mother's birthday.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> Having practised the English for years, she won a scholarship to study in the UK last year.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Choose the correct form (perfect gerund or perfect participle) used in the following sentence:

>> Having woken up all night was exhausting.

• perfect gerund

• perfect participle

Reorder the following

• for me

• English

• Having learned

• many doors

• has opened

Reorder the following

• having made

• admitted

• He

• a mistake