Appositive Phrases Quiz 15 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Appositive Phrases – Quiz 15
1. Which of the following sentences does not contain an appositive phrase?a) My favorite actor, Tom Hanks, starred in the movie.b) The house, a charming cottage, had a beautiful garden.c) The dog, a playful Labrador, fetched the ball.d) The book, a thrilling mystery, kept me guessing until the end.
A) B.
B) A.
C) D.
D) C.
2. Ford's company, using an assembly line and interchangeable parts, first produced the Model T in 1909.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Infinitive phrase.
C) Appositive phrase.
D) Participial phrase.
3. Identify the appositive or appositive phrase:The fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, can travel more than 100 miles per hour at certain times.
A) Animal.
B) At certain times.
C) The peregrine falcon.
D) Can travel more than 100 miles per hour.
4. If you don't know the meaning of a word, an appositive can help you.
A) False.
B) True.
5. Millions more watch the games another way, television. The appositive is _____ .
A) Television.
B) Millions.
C) Way.
D) None of above.
6. The baseball season ends with an annual contest, the World Series. The appositive is _____ .
A) The World Series .
B) The baseball season.
C) An annual contest.
D) None of above.
7. Getting up at five, we got an early start.
A) Participial Phrase .
B) Infinitive Phrase.
C) Gerund Phrase.
D) None of above.
8. Identify the appositive phrase in the sentence below.The silver pendant, a gift from her best friend, hung on a thin, short chain.
A) A gift from her best friend.
B) The silver pendant.
C) A gift.
D) None of above.
9. Somehow, Bobby, the mischievous toddler, climbed out on the roof and threatened to jump off.
A) The mischievous toddler.
B) Somehow Bobby.
C) The roof.
D) Climbed out.
10. How does an appositive function?.
A) As a noun .
B) As an adj.
C) As an adv.
D) None of above.
11. Where should a comma be placed in the following sentence? Amanda please plug in the chromebooks for me.
A) After "Amanda".
B) After "please".
C) After "plus".
D) After "chromebooks".
12. What is involved in the infinitive form?.
A) Verb + S.
B) Preposition + verb.
C) Verb + ING.
D) Verb + verb.
13. What is being identified by the following appositive:Harry was small and tough, a boy going through life with his chin stuck out a mile.
A) Person.
B) Place.
C) Thing.
D) None of above.
14. Identify the Infinitive phrase in the following sentence. Victoria has been searching the Internet to gather information about the life Fredrick Douglass.
A) To gather information about the life of Fredrick Douglass .
B) To gather information.
C) To gather.
D) None of above.
15. Before the food gets cold.
A) Independent.
B) Dependent.
16. Identify the appositive in the sentence below.Our class president, Mohamed Fadi, will give a speech.
A) Mohamed Fadi .
B) Our class president.
C) Our class president, Mohamed Fadi.
D) None of above.
17. True or false? Eliminating the nonessential appositive changes the basic meaning of the sentence.
A) True.
B) False.
18. Identify the appositive phrase(s). Somehow, Bobby, the mischievous toddler, climbed out on the roof.
A) Somehow, Bobby.
B) On the roof.
C) Climbed out.
D) The mischievous toddler.
19. True or False?An appositive gives extra description to the noun right before it.
A) False.
B) True.
20. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence? Attending the Capulets party with his cousin, Romeo hoped to see Rosaline, the girl he was crushing on.
A) Attending the Capulets party with his cousin.
B) Romeo hoped to see Rosaline.
C) The girl he was crushing on.
D) None of above.
21. How are appositives usually punctuated?.
A) Exclamation marks.
B) .
C) Question marks.
D) Commas.
22. Identify the appositive phrase in this sentence:Running, the sport that Jesse Owens loved, was always a talent that he had.
A) A sport that Jesse Owens loved.
B) Always a talent.
C) Running.
D) None of above.
23. Appositive phrases function as.
A) Nouns.
B) Verbs.
C) Adverbs.
D) Adjectives.
24. What phrase needs to be offset using commas? I read a book last night a real page turner.
A) Read.
B) I read a book last night.
C) Turner.
D) A real page turner.
25. What's the appositive phrase? Melissa, my sister in college, called me last night.
A) Melissa.
B) My sister.
C) My sister in college.
D) Sister.