Question

Fill in the blank with the appropriate gerund or infinitive from the options given below:
Have you finished _______ your house for Deepawali?

• A. clean
• B. cleaning
• C. cleaned
• D. none of these

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

cleaning

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.

Option B: Cleaning is a gerund as it behaves as a noun as well as a verb in the sentence.

Option C: Cleaned is the past tense of wait.

Option A: Clean is the present tense of the particular verb. It does not act as a noun.

Option D is not possible as Option B is correct

Option B is correct.