English Grammar 28: THE INFINITIVE

{ "questions": [ { "question": "What is the basic form of a standard infinitive?", "options": [ "Verb + ing", "Verb + ed", "To + base verb", "For + base verb" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In the sentence \"To err is human,\" what is the function of the infinitive?", "options": [ "Object of the verb", "Adjective", "Subject of the verb", "Adverb" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which of the following sentences contains a bare infinitive?", "options": [ "I want to eat pizza.", "She likes to read.", "Let him go.", "They tried to win." ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which modal verb requires a bare infinitive after it?", "options": [ "Must", "Ought", "Used", "Going" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Identify the role of the infinitive in: \"He had no choice but to obey.\"", "options": [ "Subject", "Object of a Preposition", "Objective Complement", "Adjective" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "In the sentence \"We eat to live,\" what does the infinitive \"to live\" qualify?", "options": [ "A Noun", "An Adjective", "A Verb", "A Sentence" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What is the Passive Present form of the infinitive \"to write\"?", "options": [ "to have written", "to be writing", "to have been written", "to be written" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Which sentence demonstrates the infinitive qualifying an adjective?", "options": [ "This house is to let.", "Figs are good to eat.", "I come to bury Caesar.", "To tell the truth, I forgot." ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "What type of infinitive acts entirely like a noun?", "options": [ "Qualifying Infinitive", "Gerundial Infinitive", "Bare Infinitive", "Simple Infinitive" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Combine these sentences using an infinitive: \"He has five children. He must provide for them.\"", "options": [ "He has five children and he provides.", "He has five children to provide for.", "Providing for five children is what he does.", "He must provide for his five children." ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which word correctly fills the blank: \"I heard him _______.\"", "options": [ "to cry", "cried", "cry", "crying to" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In the sentence \"To tell the truth, I quite forgot my promise,\" the infinitive is used absolutely to qualify:", "options": [ "A noun", "An adjective", "The verb \"forgot\"", "The whole sentence" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Identify the infinitive form: \"to have been loving.\"", "options": [ "Active Perfect Continuous", "Passive Perfect", "Active Present Continuous", "Passive Present" ], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "\"You had better _______ permission.\" Choose the correct verb form.", "options": [ "to ask", "ask", "asked", "asking" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "In \"Her greatest pleasure is to sing,\" the infinitive is used as:", "options": [ "Subject", "Object", "Complement of a Verb", "Object of a preposition" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What is the Active Perfect form of the infinitive \"to love\"?", "options": [ "to be loving", "to be loved", "to have been loved", "to have loved" ], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Combine using an infinitive: \"He went to Amritsar. He wanted to visit the Golden Temple.\"", "options": [ "He went to Amritsar visiting the Golden Temple.", "He went to Amritsar to visit the Golden Temple.", "He went to Amritsar and visited the Golden Temple.", "To visit the Golden Temple he was going to Amritsar." ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "\"I would rather die than suffer so.\" The words \"die\" and \"suffer\" are:", "options": [ "Simple Infinitives", "Bare Infinitives", "Participles", "Gerunds" ], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which of these verbs does NOT take a bare infinitive?", "options": [ "Make", "Bid", "Refuse", "See" ], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In \"He is a man to be admired,\" the infinitive \"to be admired\" is qualifying a:", "options": [ "Verb", "Adjective", "Sentence", "Noun" ], "answer": 3 } ] }