the noise of breaking glass

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
1

The noise of … glass made me wake up.

(a) breaking
(b) broke
(c) break
(d) broken

I'm 100 % sure that (b) and (c) are both incorrect. I'm not sure about the other versions. Could you please help me?
2

b is not correct. If the noise woke you the glass must have been breaking as you woke.
Only ‘breaking’ is possible in this context.

3

I think, you mean b[/b] is incorrect when you wrote this post, didn’t you?

4

I believe Bev meant a) as you can hear the noise of glass while it’s breaking, not when it’s already broken.

5

Yes - (a) breaking.

6

Perhaps, someone may have swept the broken glass with his leg to cause that kind of noise.

But yours is the answer, on first thought.

But on second thought broken could work.

7

‘Broken’ could only work if someone was moving it. I’m sure that is not what the maker of this particular test intended.

8

I agree, ‘broken’ really doesn’t work here without some further modification. For example:

  • The noise of broken glass being swept made me wake up.