Question

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

You know they don't allow _________ in here.

• A. eat and drink
• B. you eat and drink
• C. to eat and drink
• D. eating and drinking

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

eating and drinking

Gerunds are words that are formed with verbs but act as nouns. Gerunds also at times are seen to end in 'ing'. In this particular sentence, the word should act as a noun thus becoming the subject of the sentence and as a verb by taking up the object. This means that in the blank, we would need a gerund.

Eating and Drinking is a gerund as it behaves as a noun as well as a verb in the sentence

Eat and Drink are in the present tense of the particular verb. It does not act as a noun

Option D is correct