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Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles

Infinitives, Gerunds & Participles

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase into gerund.

Sentence - Your expressions cannot be based on your impressions.

  1. Expressing yourself cannot be basing on your impressions.
  2. Express yourself cannot be based on your impressions.
  3. Expressing yourself cannot be based on your impressions.
  4. Expressing yourself can be based on your impressions.
  5. Express itself cannot be basing on your impressions.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (gerund) into simple infinitive.

Sentence - Watching living things grow over a period of time is a fascinating engagement.

  1. To watch live things grow over a period of time is a fascinating engagement.
  2. To watch living things grow over a period of time is a fascinating engagement.
  3. To watch living things grow over a period of time is a fascinate engagement.
  4. To watching living things grow over a period of time is a fascinating engagement.
  5. To watch living thing grow over a period of time is a fascinating engagement.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (bare infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - Close the eyes and look attentively at what goes on in the field of our vision. You will observe yourself.

  1. Closing the eyes and looking attentively at what goes on in the field of our vision, you will observe yourself.
  2. Closing the eyes and looking attentive at what goes on in the field of our vision, you will observe yourself.
  3. Closing the eyes and look attentively at what goes on in the field of our vision, you will observe yourself.
  4. Closing the eyes and looking attentively at what goes on in the field of our vision, you will observing yourself.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (past participle) into bare infinitive form.

Sentence - Self-trained professionals are the ultimate resource for artistic and poetic expression.

  1. Professionals that train them are the ultimate resource for artistic and poetic expression.
  2. Professionals that train themselves are the ultimate resource for artist and poet expression.
  3. Professionals that training themselves are the ultimate resource for artistic and poetic expression.
  4. Professionals that train themself are the ultimate resource for artistic and poetic expression.
  5. Professionals that train themselves are the ultimate resource for artistic and poetic expression.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (present participle) into bare infinitive.

Sentence - Prolonged contact breeds intimate association and often is a precursor to a lasting relationship.

  1. Prolonged contact breed intimate association and often is a precursor to a relationship that lasts.
  2. Prolonged contact breeds intimate association and often is a precursor to a relationship that lasts.
  3. Prolong contact breeds intimate association and often is a precursor to a relationship that lasts.
  4. Prolonged contact breeds intimate association and often is a precursor to a relationship that to lasts.
  5. Prolonged contact breeds intimacy association and often is a precursor to a relationship that lasts.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted words (infinitive forms) into gerunds.

Sentence - I sympathize with his feelings, I estimate his purposes, I interpret his intentions; all this has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.

  1. Sympathizing with his feeling, estimating his purposes, interpreting his intentions, has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.
  2. Sympathizing with his feelings, estimating his purposes, interpreting his intentions, has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.
  3. Sympathizing with his feelings, estimating his purpose, interpreting his intentions, has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.
  4. Sympathizing with his feelings, estimating his purposes, interpreting his intention, has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.
  5. Sympathizing with his feelings, estimate his purposes, interpreting his intentions, has a meaning only in context of my own expectations.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (present participle) into bare infinitive.

Sentence - Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the reverberating successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

  1. Laugh appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.
  2. Laughter appear to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.
  3. Laughter appears to stand in need of a echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.
  4. Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, not as an articulate, clear, well-defined sound, but as the successive rumblings that reverberate like thunder in a mountain.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (past participle) into bare infinitive.

Sentence - Abstracted entirely from aesthetic appreciation or from moral valuation, man would just be an object of knowledge.

  1. If we abstract men entirely from aesthetic appreciation or from moral valuation, he would just be an object of knowledge.
  2. If we abstract man entirely from aesthetically appreciation or from moral valuation, he would just be an object of knowledge.
  3. If we abstract man entirely from aesthetic appreciation or from moral valuation, he would just be an object of knowledge.
  4. If we abstract man entirely from aesthetic appreciation or from moral valuation, he would just be an objection of knowledge.
  5. If we abstract man entire from aesthetic appreciation or from moral valuation, he would just be an object of knowledge.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted words (simple infinitives) into gerunds.

Sentence - To see nothing, to feel nothing, to demand nothing, relieves us from the fear of failure of action.

  1. Seeing nothing, feeling nothing, demanding nothing, relief us from the fear of failure of action, from weariness.
  2. Seeing feeling and demanding nothing, relieves us from the fear of failure of action, from weariness.
  3. Seeing nothing, feeling nothing, demanding nothing, relieving us from the fear of failure of action, from weariness.
  4. Seeing nothing, feeling nothing, demanding nothing, relieves us from the fear of failure of action, from weariness.
  5. Seeing nothing, feeling nothing, demanding nothing, relieves us from the fear of failing of action, from weariness.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (simple infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - The thing to establish first is what is actually a secret, what is to be suppressed, if one is to avoid damage to self or another.

  1. Establishing what actually a secret is, what is to be suppressed first, is necessary to avoid damage to self or another.
  2. Establishing what actually is a secret, what is to be suppressed first, is necessary to avoid damage to self or another.
  3. Establishing what actually is a secret, what is to be suppressed first, is necessary to avoiding damage to self or another.
  4. Establishing what actually are a secret, what is to be suppressed first, is necessary to avoid damage to self or another.
  5. Establishing what actually is a secret, what is to be suppressing first, is necessary to avoid damage to self or another.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (simple infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - I often choose the most remote themes that cost me long hours of intense effort, and then make them acceptable.

  1. Often choosing the most remote themes that cost me long hours of intense efforts, I make them acceptable.
  2. Often choosing the most remote themes that cost me long hours of intense effort, I made them acceptable.
  3. Often choosing the most remote theme that cost me long hours of intense effort, I make them acceptable.
  4. Often choosing the most remote themes that cost me long hours of intense effort, I make them acceptable.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after removing the present participle form from the given sentence.

Sentence - Carrying the impressions of truth from the environment to the brain, the nervous system makes us feel the pain and pleasure.

  1. When the nervous system carries the impressions of truth from the environment to the brain, it makes us feel the pain and pleasure.
  2. When the nervous system carry the impressions of truth from the environment to the brain, it makes us feel the pain and pleasure.
  3. When the nervous system carries the impressions of truth to the brain from the environment, it makes us feel the pain and pleasure.
  4. When the nervous system carries the impressions of truth from the environment to the brain, it make us feel the pain and pleasure.
  5. While the nervous system carries the impressions of truth from the environment to the brain, it makes us feel the pain and pleasure.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (simple infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - To admit the independence of intuition as a concept does not suffice to give its true and precise idea.

  1. Admitting the independence of intuition as a concept do not suffice to give its true and precise idea.
  2. Admitting the independence of intuition as a concept does not suffice to give it's true and precise idea.
  3. Admitting the independence of intuition as a concept does not suffice to give its true and precise idea.
  4. Admitting the independence of intuition as a concept does not suffices to give its true and precise idea.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (simple infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  1. Calling any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of his own reason is a farce.
  2. It is a farce calling any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
  3. Calling any being virtuously whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason is a farce.
  4. Calling any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason is a farce.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the best sentence after changing the highlighted word/phrase (simple infinitive) into gerund.

Sentence - Whenever you have written any sentence that looks particularly excellent, be sure to blot it out.

  1. Whenever you has written any sentence that is looking particularly excellent, be sure to blot it out.a
  2. Whenever you have written any sentence that is looking particularly excellent, be sure to blot it out.
  3. Whenever you have written any sentence that is looking particular excellent, be sure to blot it out.
  4. Whenever you had written any sentence that is looking particularly excellent, be sure to blot it out.
  5. Whenever you have written any sentence that are looking particularly excellent, be sure to blot it out.
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