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🧠 Participial Phrases – Quiz 12
1. What is the participial phrase?Struggling to tie her shoes, Rylie asked Max for help.
A) Asked Max for help.
B) Struggling to tie her shoes.
C) To tie her shoes.
D) Struggling to tie.
2. Which question contains a participle?.
A) He also made a wise purchase of cycling sneakers so he would not wear out his Yeezys.
B) Bob's brother Bill bought a new bicycle with his Christmas money.
C) Feet pedaling furiously, Bill set off on his first biking adventure.
D) None of above.
3. During class, Cordell sat in the corner, grinning like a chesire cat.
A) Grinning like a chesire cat.
B) Cordell.
C) During class.
D) Sat in the corner.
4. The child sat at the desk. He was painting his first picture.
A) Sitting at the desk. The child painted his first picture.
B) Sitting at the desk, the child was painting his first picture.
C) Painting his first picture, the child sat at the desk.
D) Painting his first picture, the child was sitting at the desk.
5. Identify the participle(s). Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.
A) Enjoying, jumped.
B) Enjoying.
C) Enjoying, threw.
D) Enjoying, jumped, threw.
6. Find the participle:The boiling clouds poured down rain on the seething sea.
A) Boiling.
B) Poured.
C) None of above.
7. What is being identified by the following appositive:The furniture, a mixture of Logan crafted walnut and oak, included a walnut bed whose ornate headboard rose halfway up the wall toward the high ceiling.
A) Thing .
B) Person.
C) Place.
D) None of above.
8. What are participial phrases?.
A) Phrases that include a participle and its modifiers or complements.
B) Phrases that include a participle and its subjects.
C) Phrases that include a participle and its objects.
D) Phrases that include a participle and its adverbs.
9. Working in the lab, the scientist created a robot.
A) Scientist.
B) A robot.
C) Created.
D) Working in the lab.
10. A gerund is a _____ ending in-ing.
A) Noun.
B) Verb.
C) Adjectival.
D) Verbal.
11. A participle is a verbal that functions as _____ .
A) An adjective .
B) A noun.
C) A verb.
D) None of above.
12. Do you know the couple.
A) Dancing happily? .
B) Is dancing happily?.
C) Dances happily?.
D) None of above.
13. Does this sentence contain a gerund phrase?He believed the only three valid purposes microwaves served were re-heating coffee, making popcorn, and putting some heat on take-out from places like Cluck-Cluck Tonite.
A) No.
B) Yes.
14. Identify the Participial Phrase in the following sentence. Running quickly, the policeman caught the burglar.
A) Caught.
B) The burglar.
C) Running quickly.
D) The policeman.
15. In the sentence below, which word should be followed by a comma? Shaking hands with people the president barely made it to his car.
A) People .
B) It.
C) Hands.
D) None of above.
16. The dog wearing the red collar is Mack's pet. What is the participle?.
A) Red.
B) Pet.
C) Dog.
D) Wearing.
17. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Tired from the long day, the students eagerly awaited the bell. A) Tired from the long day B) The students C) Eagerly awaited D) The bell.
A) Awaited the bell.
B) Tired from the long day.
C) The long day.
D) The students eagerly.
18. Where's the participial phrase?Returning home from school, Sue found the house empty.
A) Found the house.
B) Returning home from school.
C) Found the house empty.
D) From school.
19. Which part of the sentence is a participle? We should volunteer to rebuild the destroyed homes from Hurricane Harvey.
A) Rebuild.
B) We should volunteer.
C) Destroyed.
D) Should.
20. Which one is an incorrect statement about participle forms?.
A) There are also perfect forms.
B) An active voice verb becomes an-ing participle.
C) A passive voice verb becomes an-ed participle.
D) There are also continuous forms.
21. After the recently election, there were many that rejoiced at the new president in the White House, excited at the prospect of new leadership.
A) Independent Clause.
B) Participial Phrase.
C) Appositive phrase.
D) Absolute Phrase.
22. Jamming too much clothing into a washing machine will result in disaster.
A) Participial.
B) Gerund.
23. Which of the following sentences correctly uses a comma with a participial phrase?.
A) Running through the park, the dog chased the ball.
B) Running through the park the dog chased, the ball.
C) Running through the park the dog, chased the ball.
D) Running through the park the dog chased the ball.
24. There are three kinds of participles:past, present, and future participles.
A) True.
B) False.
25. Identify the participial phrase in this sentence:Children interested in music early develop strong intellectual skills.
A) Develop strong intellectual skills.
B) Interested in music early.