Infinitive Phrases Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Infinitive Phrases – Quiz 16
1. In the sentence 'I want to eat pizza', what is the infinitive phrase?.
A) To run fast.
B) Eating spaghetti.
C) Want to sleep.
D) To eat pizza.
2. In the following sentence, what purpose does the infinitive phrase serve?To smile at others brings joy to yourself.
A) Adjective.
B) Subject.
C) Direct object.
D) Adverb.
3. Travelers around the world searched for the Mountain of Enlightenment.
A) Adjective.
B) Adverb.
C) Infinitive.
D) None of above.
4. What do you want to drink?.
A) What do you want to drink?.
B) What do you want?.
C) Who do you want to take?.
D) Who wants to drink?.
5. After _____ watching the film, I went home.
A) Be.
B) To have.
6. Locate the infinitive phrase:We nailed plywood to the store windows to prepare for the storm.
A) To prepare for the storm .
B) To the store windows.
C) To prepare.
D) None of above.
7. Which verbal ends in-ing and functions as a noun?.
A) Gerund.
B) Participle.
C) Infinitive.
D) None of above.
8. Use the buttons to design your website.
A) Infinitive .
B) Adjective.
C) Adverb.
D) None of above.
9. Find all of the infinitives:To keep us quiet, the babysitter sent us all to swim.
A) To keep.
B) Us quiet.
C) None of above.
10. Identify the function of the infinitive phrase in the following sentence:The father told his little daughter a vivid story to entertain her after dinner.
A) Predicate nominative.
B) Adverb.
C) Adjective.
D) Subject.
11. Identify the infinitive phrase. If there is no infinitive, choose none. "Please let me stay at home because I don't want to go to school, " I begged.
A) To go.
B) At home.
C) To school.
D) None.
12. In the following sentence, the infinitive is acting like a _____ It was time to accomplish his mission or to fail.
A) Adjective .
B) Adverb.
C) Noun.
D) None of above.
13. To paint is an art.
A) Noun.
B) Adverb.
C) Adjective.
D) None of above.
14. It is CORRECT:Matias offered cooking dinner.
A) No.
B) Yes.
C) Maybe.
D) Usually.
15. What is an appositive?.
A) An appositive is a noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun.
B) An appositive shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
C) An appositive modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
D) An appositive is a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.
16. Add an infinitive phrase to the following sentence:April bought eighty lottery tickets _____ .
A) To increase her chances of winning.
B) With the hopes of winning.
C) And gave them to her grandmother.
D) At the local convenience store.
17. Which sentence has an infinite phrase? (1) John gave his phone to her. (2) They have asked to swim in our pool. (3) Brendan brought cake to the party.
A) Sentence 2.
B) Sentence 1.
C) Sentence 3.
D) None of above.
18. Which infinitive best fills in the blank in the following sentence?Emile read the article _____ information about Korea.
A) To start.
B) To make.
C) To find.
D) To decide.
19. The tiger crept over the grass.
A) Adverb.
B) Adjective.
C) Infinitive.
D) None of above.
20. We / need / a pencil?.
A) Do we need a pencil?.
B) Does we need a pencil?.
C) Do we need to a pencil?.
D) None of above.
21. What is the function of the infinitive in the sentence:I applied for a library card to read more books.
A) Adverb .
B) Noun.
C) Adjective.
D) None of above.
22. A good director succeeds _____ emotions in the spectators.
A) To provoke.
B) To provoke.
C) None of above.
23. Find the participial phrase. "A banana peel lying on the ground caused the comedian to slip.".
A) Lying on the ground.
B) Comedian to slip.
C) Ground caused.
D) None of the under.
24. What is the red word modifying (describing) in the following sentence?Tara was getting worried that she may not pass the math test, thinking how little she knew about equations.
A) Equations.
B) She.
C) Test.
D) Tara.
25. In the sentence 'To travel the world is his dream, ' what is the infinitive phrase acting as?.
A) Adverb.
B) Subject.
C) Direct object.
D) Adjective.