Participial Phrases Quiz 10 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Participial Phrases – Quiz 10
1. After reading the letter I feel very worried.
A) Reading the letter, I was very nervous.
B) Having read the letter, I was very nervous.
2. Where's the participial phrase?The rainbow, seeming to end just over the horizon, is actually an optical illusion.
A) Seeming to end.
B) Seeming to end just over the horizon.
C) The rainbow.
D) To end just over the horizon.
3. Which of the following sentences is written correctly using a participial phrase?.
A) I want to run to Austin tomorrow.
B) Taking off his jacket, he realized it was colder out than expected. .
4. True or False? A participle modifies a verb.
A) True.
B) False.
5. Their faith established in God's holy word, the pilgrims set out from England to be a beacon of hope in the new world.
A) Participial Phrase.
B) Independent Clause.
C) Absolute Phrase.
D) Appositive phrase.
6. In the following sentence, what is the gerund phrase?Pushing the handcart up to the man's house was tiring.
A) Pushing the handcart.
B) Up to the man's house.
C) Was tiring.
D) None of above.
7. Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct placement of commas in a participial phrase.
A) The car parked in the driveway, needs a wash.
B) The car parked, in the driveway needs a wash.
C) The car, parked in the driveway, needs a wash.
D) The car parked in the driveway needs a wash.
8. Gerunds act as what part of speech?.
A) Nouns.
B) Adjectives.
C) Adverbs.
D) None of the above.
9. EXERCISE 1:IDENTIFYING PARTICIPIAL PHRASES. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence. The bird singing loudly on that branch is a song sparrow.
A) Singing loudly on that branch.
B) Singing loudly.
C) Song sparrow.
D) The bird singing loudly.
10. Undeterred by the seemingly unsurmountable hurdle, William Wilberforce continue to forge ahead to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
A) Absolute Phrase.
B) Appositive phrase.
C) Participial Phrase.
D) Independent Clause.
11. How can you recognize a present participle?.
A) It ends in-en.
B) It ends in-ed.
C) It ends in-s.
D) It ends in-ing.
12. What are the two ways a participle can end?.
A) -ly.
B) -ness.
C) -ing.
13. Running down the street, the girl tripped and fell. What is the participle?.
A) Fell.
B) Tripped.
C) Down.
D) Running.
14. Although he would never admit it, Sebastian loved the cafeteria food.
A) Participial Phrase.
B) Independent Clause.
C) Absolute Phrase.
D) Appositive phrase.
15. Which sentence is constructed correctly?.
A) Joan, running down the hall, tripped and knocked over the garbage can.
B) Joan, running down the hall, she tripped and knocked over the garbage can.
16. For many students, high school is merely a detention cell, a prison, a facility of incarceration established to bring about anguish and despair.
A) Independent Clause.
B) Participial Phrase.
C) Appositive phrase.
D) Absolute Phrase.
17. Thomas Jefferson, a new member of the House of Burgesses in 1769, co-sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in the colony of Virginia.
A) Appositive phrase.
B) Independent Clause.
C) Participial Phrase.
D) Absolute Phrase.
18. Buying which of these items would be considered frivolous if you only had 10 dollars to last you the week?.
A) A soda from quick trip that costs 79 cents.
B) A large Starbucks coffee that costs 7 dollars.
C) Hot dog from 7-11 that costs 1 dollar.
D) School lunch everyday for a week.
19. What is the participial phrase in this sentence? Remembering Baby Neewo, Omakayas wept.
A) Omakayas wept.
B) Omakays.
C) Remembering Baby Neewo.
D) Baby Neewo.
20. Running through the field, Omakayas and Angeline yelled and waved their arms at the crows.
A) Running through the field.
B) Omakayas and Angeline yelled.
C) And waved their arms.
D) At the crows.
21. Identify the participial phrase. The thief, being detected, surrendered to the officer.
A) Being detected.
B) The thief.
C) Surrendered to the office.
D) None of above.
22. The dog, wagging his tail wildly, bounded out to meet us.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
23. Joe, searching for the code, was really excited.
A) Searching.
B) Code.
C) Really.
D) Excited.
24. Searching for an answer, I looked in a current dictionary.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
25. A popular Halloween snack is roasted pumpkin seeds.
A) Is.
B) Roasted.
C) Pumpkin.
D) Popular.