Gerund Forms Practice

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 practice choosing between gerunds and infinitives to complete sentences accurately. By working through real-life contexts involving preferences, emotions, promises, routines, and intentions, learners strengthen grammar awareness, verb pattern recognition, sentence structure skills, and language application while understanding how meaning can change based on verb form choice.

Key Learning Objectives

• Grammar and Usage (Grades 5-7) – Students decide whether a sentence requires a gerund or an infinitive form.
• Verb Pattern Recognition – Learners identify which verbs are typically followed by gerunds, infinitives, or both.
• Sentence Structure Awareness – Students analyze sentence cues to apply the correct grammatical structure.
• Vocabulary and Language Application – Practice supports accurate use of verb forms in everyday communication.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with standard English grammar instruction and classroom needs.
• Context-Based Practice – Realistic sentence examples help students understand how verb choices affect meaning.
• Encourages Critical Thinking – Students compare similar verbs and structures rather than memorizing rules alone.
• Flexible Use – Suitable for independent practice, homework, grammar review, or small-group instruction.

This gerund versus infinitive worksheet helps students build confidence with verb forms, grammar accuracy, sentence fluency, and language precision. By practicing structured examples, learners begin to recognize verb patterns automatically, supporting more advanced grammar and writing tasks. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool language arts setting, this printable provides focused, no-prep practice with an essential grammar concept.

This worksheet is part of our gerunds and infinitives worksheets collection.