Gerund and Infinitive Worksheet
The grammar rule (The first verb decides): -ing after: enjoy, finish, avoid, keep, practise, and after every preposition (good at swimming, fond of reading, looking forward to meeting). to + base after: want, decide, plan, hope, promise, agree, need, refuse. Learn them in pairs: enjoyed singing, decided to sing.
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- 1.Neel avoided ___ the dog. (a) feed (b) feeds (c) to feed (d) feeding
- 2.Tara kept ___ rice. (a) cooks (b) to cook (c) cook (d) cooking
- 3.Farhan is tired of ___ the ball. (a) catches (b) catch (c) catching (d) to catch
- 4.Pooja is looking forward to ___ a cartoon next week. (a) watching (b) watches (c) to watch (d) watch
- 5.Zoya is interested in ___ science. (a) to study (b) studying (c) studies (d) study
- 6.Farhan avoided ___ a mango. (a) eating (b) to eat (c) eat (d) eats
- 7.Rohan is looking forward to ___ a tree next week. (a) climb (b) climbing (c) climbs (d) to climb
- 8.Myra avoided ___ Hindi. (a) speak (b) speaks (c) to speak (d) speaking
- 9.Farhan is looking forward to ___ a bicycle next week. (a) to ride (b) rides (c) riding (d) ride
- 10.Kavya wanted ___ a kite. (a) fly (b) flies (c) flying (d) to fly
- 11.Diya finished ___ a message. (a) sends (b) sending (c) send (d) to send
- 12.Dev practised ___ a kite. (a) flying (b) flies (c) fly (d) to fly
- 13.Manav finished ___ Grandma. (a) to help (b) helps (c) help (d) helping
- 14.Rohan finished ___ the dishes. (a) to wash (b) washing (c) washes (d) wash
- 15.Kunal is good at ___ a cartoon. (a) to watch (b) watches (c) watch (d) watching
- 16.Farhan is interested in ___ on the stage. (a) to dance (b) dances (c) dance (d) dancing
- 17.Ananya is tired of ___ a tree. (a) plants (b) plant (c) planting (d) to plant
- 18.Kavya is tired of ___ vegetables. (a) buys (b) buying (c) buy (d) to buy
- 19.Ishaan kept ___ a cake. (a) bake (b) to bake (c) baking (d) bakes
- 20.Nisha is looking forward to ___ the match next week. (a) to win (b) win (c) winning (d) wins
- 21.Omkar is good at ___ the match. (a) wins (b) win (c) winning (d) to win
- 22.Zoya decided ___ a sandcastle. (a) build (b) building (c) builds (d) to build
- 23.Neel is looking forward to ___ a picture next week. (a) draws (b) draw (c) to draw (d) drawing
- 24.Rohan is looking forward to ___ vegetables next week. (a) buys (b) buying (c) to buy (d) buy
- 25.Tara agreed ___ in the pool. (a) swim (b) swims (c) to swim (d) swimming
- 26.Neel is tired of ___ the match. (a) wins (b) to win (c) win (d) winning
- 27.Ira finished ___ to school. (a) goes (b) go (c) to go (d) going
- 28.Kunal is looking forward to ___ the room next week. (a) to clean (b) clean (c) cleans (d) cleaning
- 29.Pooja is tired of ___ a message. (a) sends (b) sending (c) send (d) to send
- 30.Neel is interested in ___ in the pool. (a) swim (b) to swim (c) swims (d) swimming
- 31.Sneha needed ___ on the stage. (a) dances (b) dancing (c) dance (d) to dance
- 32.Aditya planned ___ a cake. (a) to bake (b) bake (c) bakes (d) baking
- 33.Kabir is looking forward to ___ the bag next week. (a) carrying (b) carry (c) to carry (d) carries
- 34.Sneha is looking forward to ___ for the team next week. (a) claps (b) clap (c) clapping (d) to clap
- 35.Neel refused ___ milk. (a) drinks (b) drink (c) drinking (d) to drink
- 36.Diya is tired of ___ science. (a) studying (b) study (c) studies (d) to study
- 37.Diya agreed ___ milk. (a) drinks (b) drink (c) to drink (d) drinking
- 38.Priya finished ___ to school. (a) going (b) go (c) to go (d) goes
- 39.Rohan is good at ___ a story. (a) telling (b) tell (c) tells (d) to tell
- 40.Farhan wanted ___ the room. (a) clean (b) to clean (c) cleaning (d) cleans
Answer key
- feeding
- cooking
- catching
- watching
- studying
- eating
- climbing
- speaking
- riding
- to fly
- sending
- flying
- helping
- washing
- watching
- dancing
- planting
- buying
- baking
- winning
- winning
- to build
- drawing
- buying
- to swim
- winning
- going
- cleaning
- sending
- swimming
- to dance
- to bake
- carrying
- clapping
- to drink
- studying
- to drink
- going
- telling
- to clean
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