Question

read the sentence.
to host a party of this magnitude requires to clean and to organize the house before you get to the part where you can add decorations to the rooms.

how should the sentence be revised to replace the infinitives with gerunds? check all that apply.

• by changing \to host\ to \hosting\
• by changing \to clean\ to \cleaning\
• by changing \to organize\ to \organizing\
• by changing \to the part\ to \parting\
• by changing \to the rooms\ to

ooming\

Explanation:

Identify the infinitives in the sentence

The original sentence is: "To host a party of this magnitude requires to clean and to organize the house before you get to the part where you can add decorations to the rooms."
Infinitives are formed with "to" followed by the base form of a verb. The infinitives in this sentence are:

• "To host"
• "to clean"
• "to organize"

Note that "to the part" and "to the rooms" are prepositional phrases, not infinitives, because "the part" and "the rooms" are noun phrases.

Determine the corresponding gerunds

Gerunds are verb forms ending in "-ing" that function as nouns. Replacing the identified infinitives with gerunds yields:

• "To host" becomes "Hosting"
• "to clean" becomes "cleaning"
• "to organize" becomes "organizing"

Match with the given options

• "by changing 'To host' to 'Hosting'" is correct.
• "by changing 'to clean' to 'cleaning'" is correct.
• "by changing 'to organize' to 'organizing'" is correct.
• "by changing 'to the part' to 'parting'" is incorrect (prepositional phrase).
• "by changing 'to the rooms' to 'rooming'" is incorrect (prepositional phrase).

Answer:

• by changing "To host" to "Hosting" (Correct answer)
• by changing "to clean" to "cleaning" (Correct answer)
• by changing "to organize" to "organizing" (Correct answer)
• by changing "to the part" to "parting"
• by changing "to the rooms" to "rooming"