Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Watch me ___ the fence.
A.Jumping
B.Jumped
C.To Jump
D.Had jumped
E.Did jumped

Answer 1

Hint:Gerunds are words that are formed with verbs but act as nouns. Gerunds also at times are seen to end in 'ing'.Thus gerunds play an important role in the english so we use this in the answer.So the concept should be remembered here.

Complete answer:
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 in the blank acts as a noun thus becoming the subject of the sentence and also like a verb by taking up the object. This means that in the blank, we would need a gerund.

Option A is correct : "Jumping" is a gerund as it behaves as a noun as well as a verb in the sentence thus we are using the option a that is jumping as the correct option.

Option B is incorrect : "Jumped" is in the past tense. Option D goes the same way. Here the action has already taken place so we cannot use the jumped option as the right answer.

Option C is incorrect : "To jump" is in the present tense. Option E goes the same way so we cannot use this one as the right answer as it becomes wrong.

Option D and Option E are incorrect : because they are not coming under the gerunds so we are not using this because it is incorrect and does not fit the correct options.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note:Here the gerunds are important concepts because they play a very important role in the english so we use the concepts of gerunds to solve this problems.Hence ing concept is used here.So we need use the concept of this without fail and remember it..And make sure that the option given in the question matches exactly and correct.So we need to read the sentence carefully and answer it using exact option.