Infinitive and Gerund Quiz

Find the examples which do not refer to the Perfect Infinitive: (3ші жауап жоқ дейді мүлдем)

• He seems to have finished the project already.

• They must have been waiting for hours when we finally arrived.

• She must have left the office by now.

• He seems to have been feeling sick for the last few days.

• She claimed to have been studying for hours.

Find the examples of the gerund as an attribute:

• Presently there was the sound of the car being brought to the door.

• Isabella ceased speaking.

• ...there's no chance of their getting married for years.

• She had a feeling of having been worsted.

• After leaving her umbrella in the hall, she entered the living room.

Find the sentences where the Infinitive is used as a parenthesis:

• To be honest, I don't think he'll come.

• To be fair, she had warned them about the risks.

• He was foolish enough to ignore the warning signs.

• To tell you the truth, I had forgotten all about it.

• To win the game, you must work as a team.

Find the sentences where the Gerund is used as an attribute:

• To doubt, under the circumstances, is almost to insult.

• I have nobody to say a kind word to me.

• She had a feeling of having been worsted.

• Switching protruded his pale round eyes with the effort of hearing.

• I never saw you act this way before.

Find the examples of the gerund as a prepositional complex object:

• The day was spent in packing.

• Upon waking I found myself much recovered.

• in the night it started raining.

• Aunt Augusta won't quite approve of your being here.

• I was conscious of her having listened.

Which of the following groups of verbs in the Passive Voice are not used with the Subjective Infinitive Construction:

• the verb to make

• the verb to be

• verbs denoting mental activity: to think, to consider; to know, to expect, to believe, to suppose.

• verbs denoting sense perception: to see, to hear, etc.

• the verbs to move, to creep

Find the examples where the gerund doesn't function as an adverbial modifier:

• There was no mistaking the expression on her face.

• On reaching Casterbridge he left the horse and trap at an inn.

• The day was spent in packing.

• She took my hand and kept on laughing.

• I feel the better myself for having spent a good deal of my time abroad.

State the role of the infinitive in a sentence: To go on like this was dangerous:

• predicative

• compound verbal aspect predicate

• compound verbal modal predicate

• attribute

• subject

Choose the right variant. The infinitive can't function as:

• part of a predicative

• an attribute

• a subject

• a finite verb

• an object

In the function of an attribute the gerund is ... preceded by a preposition:

• often

• sometimes

• always

• seldom

• never