English Grammar Exercise for SSC, HSC - 2

SYLLABUS/TOPIC: Infinitive – Gerund

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
After every 20 questions, the answers are provided.

1. He admitted ___ the car but denied ___ it by himself.
A) stealing / doing
B) to steal / doing
C) stealing / to do
D) to steal / to do
E) stealing / to be done

2. How do you feel if someone laughs at you? I hate people ___ at
me.
A) laughed
B) laughing
C) being laughed
D) to be laughed
E) to be laughing

3. We often hear her ___ at concerts.
A) sings
B) singing
C) sang
D) to sing
E) have sung

4. Mother wants him ___ to the country during the summer.
A) goes
B) go
C) to go
D) will go
E) went

5. ___ many books on history helps school children to get knowledge
about the past of different nations.
A) read
B) reads
C) has read
D) will read
E) reading

6. As well as ___ I like ___ .
A) running/walking
B) run/walk
C) run/walked
D) running/walked
E) run/to walk

7. The man ___ the newspaper is my brother.
A) read
B) reads
C) has read
D) reading
E) will read

8. It is very pleasant ___ in the river on hot days in the summers.
A) bathe
B) bathing
C) bathed
D) to bathe
E) having bathed

9. He warmed himself by ___ hot tea.
A) drinking
B) drank
C) drunk
D) to drink
E) is drinking

10. It’s very pleasant ___ on the beach in summer.
A) lie
B) to lie
C) lay
D) lain
E) lying

11. -I hope my dream will come true this year.
-And what do you dream of?
-Oh, I dream of ___ a law school and ___ a lawyer.
A) to enter / to become
B) enter / become
C) entering / becoming
D) entered / become
E) to enter / becoming

12. He sat in the arm-chair ___ a newspaper.
A) read
B) reads
C) reading
D) had read
E) is read

13. ___ English is the best way of ___ it.
A) speak / learn
B) speaking / learning
C) to speak / to learn
D) spoke / learning
E) speak / learning

14. She dreams of her son’s ___ a director of the company.
A) becoming
B) is becoming
C) become
D) became
E) was becoming

15. Why didn’t you try ___ yourself a job?
A) found
B) have found
C) finding
D) to find
E) to be found

16. We watched the coastline ___ slowly.
A) recede
B) to recede
C) recedes
D) have receded
E) receded

17. Nobody heard her ___ English.
A) spoke
B) speaks
C) speak
D) was speaking
E) had spoken.

18. We stopped at the motorway services ___ something to eat.
A) to get
B) to have got
C) was getting
D) get
E) got

19. I’m not really interested in ___ to the University.
A) go
B) went
C) going
D) being gone
E) have gone

20. This article is worth ___ .
A) reading
B) read
C) to read
D) has read
E) will read

ANSWERS:
1-A
2-B
3-B
4-C
5-E
6-A
7-D
8-D
9-A
10-B
11-C
12-C
13-B
14-A
15-D
16-A
17-C
18-A
19-C
20-A

21. They have got enough money ___ to the cinema.
A) go
B) having gone
C) to have gone
D) to go
E) going

22. I saw him ___ a newspaper.
A) to read
B) to have read
C) reading
D) to be reading
E) having read

23. Watch me ___ the fence.
A) jumping
B) jumped
C) to jump
D) had jumped
E) did jump

24. She decided ___ to Spain for her holidays.
A) to go
B) go
C) goes
D) to be going
E) to have gone

25. In winter he spends much time in the mountains, he is fond of
___ .
A) to skate
B) skated
C) skating
D) to be skated
E) having skated

26. The street was full of people ___ and ___ home.
A) laughed / gone
B) laughing / going
C) having laughed / go
D) to laugh / to go
E) to be laughed / going

27. ___ a foreign language you can ___ great opportunities in your
life.
A) know / have
B) knowing / to have
C) knowing / have
D) knows / having
E) knowing / having

28. On ___ the classroom the teacher asked to the pupil on duty,
“Who is absent?”
A) entering
B) entered
C) to enter
D) be entering
E) being entered

29. Working in the garden it is pleasant ___ to music.
A) listening
B) listened
C) to listen
D) after listening
E) having listened

30. You are lucky you have not got a child ___ .
A) to look after
B) should look after
C) looking after
D) having looked after
E) is looking after

31. She saw the girl ___ in the yard.
A) playing
B) on playing
C) played
D) to play
E) was playing

32. He usually left us without ___ a word.
A) to say
B) saying
C) said
D) say
E) having been said

33. I’m fond of ___ in the river.
A) have swum
B) swam
C) swim
D) swimming
E) having swum

34. The aim of the exhibition is ___ experience.
A) to be exchanged
B) exchanged
C) to have exchanged
D) to exchange
E) being exchanged

35. The horse ___ the race ___ the winner of the same event two years
ago.
A) led / was
B) leading / is
C) leading / was
D) to lead / was
E) leads / being

36. His mother was against his ___ football.
A) play
B) was playing
C) played
D) to play
E) playing

37. Miss Benson was looking forward to ___ the title role in the new
play.
A) play
B) playing
C) to be played
D) played
E) being played

38. Pete likes ___ . His dream is to visit Japan.
A) painting
B) reading
C) writing
D) traveling
E) swimming

39. My friends need ___ English
A) learns
B) to learn
C) to have learned
D) to be learned
E) having learned

40. When I came into the room she stopped ___ T.V.
A) watching
B) watch
C) watched
D) on watching
E) watches

ANSWERS:
21-D
22-C
23-A
24-A
25-C
26-B
27-C
28-A
29-C
30-A
31-A
32-B
33-D
34-D
35-C
36-E
37-B
38-D
39-B
40-A

41. Which of the boys ___ in the yard is Ted?
A) play
B) played
C) plays
D) is playing
E) playing

42. We saw them ___ the street.
A) crossed
B) crossing
C) will cross
D) had crossed
E) will be crossing

43. It’s never too late ___ .
A) being learned
B) not to learn
C) learned
D) learning
E) to learn

44. The girls ___ in the garden are my sisters.
A) played
B) to play
C) playing
D) on playing
E) are playing

45. I like ___ the people happy.
A) to have made
B) made
C) making
D) having made
E) being made

46. Besides ___ I like ___ swimming competitions.
A) swimming / to watch
B) to swim / to watch
C) swimming / watched
D) to swim / watching
E) swimming / watch

47. Tom wants to read a book but Susan makes him ___ something in
the paper. It’s an advertisement for a better job. She wants him
___ for this job.
A) to read / to apply
B) to read / apply
C) read / to apply
D) reading / apply
E) to read / applying

48. She left the room without ___ good bye.
A) say
B) saying
C) to say
D) said
E) on saying

49. The friends spoke of their ___ together.
A) to go
B) going
C) gone
D) is going
E) on going

50. If your plane has crashed high in the mountains, it’s best ___ close to
the plane. Rescuers have got a better chance of ___ the plane than
one person alone.
A) to keep / finding
B) keeping / found
C) kept / to have found
D) kept / not to find
E) keeping / being found

51. Robert saw the doctor ___ the patient.
A) to examine
B) to have examined
C) having examined
D) being examined
E) examine

52. The girl ___ in the yard asked me the time.
A) play
B) to play
C) played
D) playing
E) was playing

53. The emperor thought of ___ his state powerful.
A) becoming
B) become
C) became
D) having become
E) had become

54. Mother was anxious ___ her family.
A) to see
B) seeing
C) to be seen
D) having seen
E) being seen

55. I can’t help ___ you about it.
A) to tell
B) telling
C) having told
D) having been told
E) being told

56. Many builders and engineers from other republics began ___ to
build new houses in Moscow in 1995.
A) helping
B) would help
C) helped
D) shall help
E) having helped

57. I have never heard him ___ French.
A) to speak
B) speaking
C) spoken
D) being spoken
E) to have spoken

58. Nobody expected him ___ Lola.
A) marry
B) married
C) to marry
D) will marry
E) would marry

59. This holiday is worth ___ .
A) celebrates
B) celebrated
C) celebrating
D) have celebrated
E) to celebrate

60. Frank is in hospital. He feels bad. He has to give up ___ and ___
beer. But he can’t. He says to his wife, ‘’Would you mind ___
some cigarettes next time?”
A) smoking / to drink / bringing
B) to smoke / drinking / bringing
C) smoking / drank / bringing
D) smoking / drinking / bringing
E) to smoke / to drink / to bring

ANSWERS:
41-E
42-B
43-E
44-C
45-C
46-A
47-C
48-B
49-B
50-A
51-E
52-D
53-A
54-A
55-B
56-A
57-B
58-C
59-C
60-D

61. Ernest Hemingway was fond of ___ books.
A) read
B) to read
C) reading
D) be read
E) to be read

62. Turn on the radio. I want ___ to the news.
A) listen
B) listening
C) to listen
D) listened
E) have been listened

63. How do you feel if someone interrupts you?I hate people ___
me.
A) interrupted
B) to be interrupted
C) not to interrupt
D) having interrupted
E) interrupting

64. After ___ my work I’ll join you.
A) finish
B) to finish
C) have finished
D) finishing
E) finished

65. Please, try ___ quiet, everyone is sleeping.
A) be
B) to be
C) being
D) having been
E) been

66. He enjoyed ___ .
A) singing
B) sing
C) was singing
D) to sing
E) sung

67. The man ___ in the garden is listening to music.
A) work
B) is working
C) working
D) to work
E) worked

68. ___ the article we began ___ it.
A) reading / discuss
B) having read / discussing
C) to read / to discuss
D) read / discussing
E) reading / discussed

69. The man ___ a cigarette is Tom’s cousin.
A) smoked
B) to smoke
C) smoking
D) have smoked
E) had smoked

70. I study English again, because ___ a foreign language is very
important.
A) speak
B) spoken
C) having spoken
D) speaking
E) spoke

71. I like your ___ English.
A) speak
B) speaking
C) was spoken
D) have spoken
E) having spoken

72. Instead of ___ for Olga at home I decided ___ her in the street.
A) to wait / to meet
B) waiting / to meet
C) waiting / meeting
D) to wait / to meet
E) wait / meeting

73. They looked at the ___ plane.
A) flying
B) flown
C) flew
D) being flown
E) having been flown

74. ___ the language he couldn’t understand the question.
A) know
B) knows
C) not to know
D) known
E) not knowing

75. Which of these four young men ___ by the fire is your son?
A) sitting
B) sit
C) will sit
D) sits
E) sat

76. We expect him ___ tomorrow.
A) arrived
B) to arrive
C) to have arrived
D) to be arrived
E) having arrived

77. They sat up all night ___ .
A) talk
B) talked
C) talking
D) to be talked
E) to have talked

78. The young man didn’t stop ___ although I asked him twice.
A) is smoking
B) smoked
C) smoking
D) smoked
E) to smoke

79. He introduced me to an acquaintance ___ that I did not know her.
A) to believe
B) believing
C) to have believed
D) of believing
E) not to believe

80. I hope ___ you this evening.
A) to see
B) to be seen
C) have seen
D) see
E) seen

ANSWERS:
61-C
62-C
63-E
64-D
65-B
66-A
67-C
68-B
69-C
70-D
71-B
72-B
73-A
74-E
75-A
76-B
77-C
78-C
79-B
80-A

81. I am thankful for his ___ in time.
A) came
B) come
C) to have come
D) coming
E) to come

82. I remember the day when you took me aboard of your ship to
help you in ___ the shark.
A) hunt
B) to hunt
C) hunting
D) hunted
E) having hunted

83. But the beaver went on ___ lace.
A) to make
B) make
C) made
D) making
E) have made

84. ___ with you is real pleasure.
A) talked
B) is talking
C) on talking
D) talking
E) talks

85. What time do you come to the office?
-Usually at 9, but tomorrow I’ll have to be there a bit earlier ___
through some documents.
A) looking
B) looked
C) to be looking
D) to look
E) to be looked

86. We knew nothing of his ___ a student.
A) being
B) be
C) been
D) to be
E) to have been

87. He remembered he was going to buy a new suit ___ the shop.
A) pass
B) passes
C) to pass
D) passing
E) will pass

88. ___ for better future many Asians leave their native countries ___ to
Europe.
A) hope / move
B) hoping / moves
C) hoped / moving
D) hoping / moving
E) hope / moving

89. She tried to be serious but she couldn’t help ___ .
A) to laugh
B) laughing
C) laughed
D) laugh
E) having laughed

90. Would you mind ___ the door, please?
A) to close
B) being closed
C) closing
D) close
E) closed

91. She has nobody ___ to.
A) talked
B) to talk
C) talk
D) talks
E) is talking

92. I enjoy ___ in the garden at week-ends.
A) work
B) to work
C) to be working
D) working
E) worked

93. He is an artistic person - very good at ___ poetry.
A) to write
B) to be written
C) having written
D) write
E) writing

94. ___ in Geneva for many years he knew the city well.
A) Living
B) Lived
C) Being lived
D) To live
E) Have lived

95. Captain was the last ___ the ship.
A) leaving
B) is leaving
C) on leaving
D) to leave
E) left

96. I don’t mind ___ .
A) to walk
B) be walking
C) walking
D) having been walked
E) to have walked

97. If you are lost in a snow storm it’s best ___ a hole and sit in it until
it stops ___ .
A) digging / snowing
B) dig / snowed
C) to dig / snowed
D) digging / snowed
E) to dig / snowing

ANSWERS:
81-D
82-C
83-D
84-D
85-D
86-A
87-D
88-D
89-B
90-C
91-B
92-D
93-E
94-A
95-D
96-C
97-E

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