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Infinitives, Gerunds and Participles

Description: Infinitives, Gerunds & Participles
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Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

Do we not mistake the idyllic, unaffected rustic charm of the rural dweller for uncouth, inelegant artlessness?

  1. Bare infinitive

  2. Simple infinitive

  3. Split infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Do' is the auxiliary for which 'mistake' is the bare infinitive complement.

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

Why should frustration assail your mind?

  1. Bare infinitive

  2. Simple infinitive

  3. Split infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Assail' is the bare infinitive complement to the modal 'should'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. He warned the government

  2. that attempts to curbing

  3. terrorism should not mean

  4. the loss of civil liberties

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Error in option (2). Simple infinitive 'to curb' is to be used in place of gerund 'curbing'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. The predator preys on lizards,

  2. insects and small snakes and

  3. injecting them with deadly venom

  4. before sucking out their body fluids

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Error in option (3). Bare infinitive 'injects' is to be used in place of gerund 'injecting'.

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

The only practicable way of measuring a student's performance or of assessing his potential is by an examination, supplemented by interview and other devices.

  1. Participle, simple verb

  2. Simple verb, phrasal verb

  3. Gerund, phrasal verb

  4. Gerund, gerund

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Both 'measuring and assessing' have been used as nouns. Therefore, the both words are gerunds.

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

Can it then fail to throw light for us on the way that human imagination works, and more particularly social, collective, and popular imagination?

  1. Bare infinitive, simple verb

  2. Bare infinitive, simple infinitive

  3. Complex infinitive, bare infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive, simple infinitive

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'Fail' is the bare infinitive complement of modal 'can', 'works' is a simple verb.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. In regulatory filed the company had

  2. said that commercial irregularities had

  3. forced it to take a big hit in addition to

  4. restructuring spend planned in 2012

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Error in option (1). 'filed' should be used in gerund form, i.e. 'filing'.

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

You can understand the subject through the pictures of objects or places you wish to know about.

  1. Bare infinitive, bare infinitive

  2. Bare infinitive, simple infinitive

  3. Complex infinitive, split infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive, simple infinitive

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Understand' is the bare infinitive complement of modal 'can', 'to know' is a simple 'to-infinitive'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. In a heating conversation,

  2. both the parties seemed

  3. to violently attack each other

  4. with baseless allegations

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Error in option (1). Gerund form 'heating' should be replaced with participle 'heated' (verb acting as an adjective).

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. The constraints placed have

  2. made it difficult engaging in

  3. normal social activities such

  4. as going to the movies

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Error in option (2). Simple infinitive 'to engage' is to be used in place of 'engaging'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. The readers wake up to an online

  2. edition every Sunday morning,

  3. which is one of best-loved offers

  4. from the media house's stable

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Error in option (3). Gerund form of 'offers', i.e. 'offerings' shall be used in the sentence.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. The professor critically

  2. reviewed the technical

  3. read supplied by the

  4. examiner to the students for the entrance examination

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Error in option (3). Gerund 'reading' should be used instead of 'read'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. Solve these preliminary

  2. questions is the goal of ethics

  3. or social Philosophy, which intends

  4. to create an environment for the learned

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Error in option (1). 'Solve' should be replaced with 'Solving'.

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the part having the error.

  1. Continuing its sharp slide, the currency tumbled

  2. 47 units touched a new low of 55.86 against the

  3. US dollar in the late morning trade due to

  4. persistent demand for the American currency

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Error in option (2). 'touch' should be replaced with simple infinitive 'to touch'.

Directions: Select the category for the highlighted word(s) in the given sentence.

You cannot be a good citizen nor do yourself justice as an individual if you live in a nightmare of frustration and anxiety.

  1. Bare infinitive

  2. Simple infinitive

  3. Split infinitive

  4. Complex infinitive

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

'Do' is the complex infinitive complement of modal 'cannot'. The other complement is 'be'.

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