GATE2011 MN: GA-58

Question

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence below.
______________ in the frozen wastes of Arctic takes special equipment.

• A. To survive
• B. Surviving
• C. Survival
• D. That survival

Answer 1

______________ in the frozen wastes of Arctic takes special equipment.

What is taking (requiring) "special equipment"?

It is "survival" (noun form)

If we use "To survive" (infinitive form)we need to modify the sentence as

• To survive in the frozen wastes of Arctic, it takes special equipment.

"Surviving" is also not correct because we are not having a noun here. 

PS: "Although a gerund phrase can function as the subject of a sentence, adding an “ing” to a verb does not make it a noun."

References:

• https://www.grammaring.com/the-gerund-as-subject
• https://www.utdallas.edu/studentsuccess/files/GerundsandInfinitivePhrases.pdf

Correct Answer: C "survival".

Comments

Why not The Survival?

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Which is that option?

Answer 2

Official GATE answer: (A) To survive

Comments

why survival did not come here???

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A or C?