Participial Phrases Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Participial Phrases – Quiz 16
1. Identify the participial phrase. The scouts roasting marshmallows around the fire told ghost stories to pass the time.
A) Roasting marshmallows around the fire.
B) Roasting marshmallows.
C) Told ghost stories to pass the time.
D) None of above.
2. The problem of most developing countries is the rapidly _____ population which is not supported by a strong economy.
A) Grown.
B) Is growing.
C) Growing.
D) Grew.
3. Some plants growing at an angle can straighten themselves up.
A) Themselves up.
B) Some plants.
C) Growing at an angle.
D) Can straighten.
4. What is the definition of a Participial Phrase.
A) Verbs ending in ed and ing used as adjectives.
B) Verbs ending in ing used as nouns.
C) To+verb:used as adjective, adverb, or noun.
D) Phrases to rename something.
5. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:Records, cracked and warped, were in the old trunk in the attic.
A) Records.
B) Cracked.
C) Were.
6. Choose the correct participial phrase in the sentence:'The cake, baked by my mom, tasted delicious.'a) baked by my momb) tasted deliciousc) The caked) by my mom.
A) Tasted delicious.
B) Baked by my mom.
C) The cake.
D) By my mom.
7. The boy by his teacher cannot answer the question.
A) Asking.
B) Asked.
C) Who asked.
D) Ask.
8. Choose the participial phrase:.
A) Removing his glasses.
B) Work from home.
C) Meet with the dean.
D) Hum a tune.
9. Where is a comma needed to make this sentence correct? Jody seeing her sister in need of new clothes, passed down some of her old clothes.
A) After sister.
B) Before clothes.
C) After some.
D) Before seeing.
10. A gerund functions as _____ .
A) A noun.
B) An adjective.
C) A verb.
D) None of above.
11. The baby's teeth look very shiny since they were just brushed by his mother.
A) Looking very shiny, the baby's teeth were just brushed by his mother.
B) They looked very shiny. The teeth were just brushed by his mother.
C) Looking very shiny, they were just brushed by his mother.
D) Looking very shiny. The baby's teeth were just brushed by his mother.
12. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.
A) Trotting up to the fence.
B) Trotting up.
C) Hopes that you have.
D) Have an apple or carrot.
13. The cat, locked inside the crate, hissed at the mouse and snarled at the rickety fan.
A) Hissed at the mouse.
B) Locked inside the crate.
C) The cat.
D) Snarled at the rickety fan.
14. What is the italic word modifying in the following sentence?Spewing out smoke, the diesel truck chugged up the hill.
A) Chugged.
B) The diesel truck.
C) Smoke.
D) Up the hill.
15. Which of the following sentences correctly uses a past participial phrase to describe a nebula?.
A) The nebula is forming stars.
B) The nebula was formed by stars.
C) The nebula is formed into stars.
D) The nebula forms stars.
16. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?The child, relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly in her mother's dress.
A) Relinquished by the nurse.
B) Rushed across the room.
C) Rooted shyly in her mother's dress.
D) None of above.
17. What are the participles in the following sentence?The sobbing child held his injured knee.
A) Sobbing.
B) Child.
C) The.
18. Three teenagers treated in the emergency room yesterday required stitches.
A) Required.
B) Treated in the emergency room yesterday.
C) Stitches.
D) Three teenagers.
19. I'm going to ride the bicycle.
A) In front of the tree.
B) Is in front of the tree.
C) In front the tree.
D) None of above.
20. Identify the prepositional phrase:The pencil that fell off the desk was yellow.
A) Pencil that fell.
B) Was yellow.
C) Off the desk.
D) Fell off the desk.
21. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:'Excited about the trip, they packed their bags.'.
A) Packed their bags.
B) Packed.
C) Excited.
D) Excited about the trip,.
22. Frozen by the winter storm, the flower never bloomed and eventually died.
A) Frozen by the winter storm.
B) The flower never bloomed.
C) Eventually died.
D) None of above.
23. Curled up inside a big one-meter drainage pipe that ran under the road, she had her baseball glove in her mouth, and she was rocking back and forth, banging her head repeatedly against the back of the pipe.
A) I see a present and past participle in that sentence.
B) I see a present participle in that sentence.
C) I see a past participle in that sentence.
D) I don't see any participial phrases in that sentence.
24. Jack, dribbling speedily down the court, caused a full-on collision with Brandon. What interrupter are you seeing?.
A) Appositive.
B) Participial Phrase.
25. Identify the participle in each example:shooting star:crying babies:frozen food:burned toast.
A) Crying, frozen, shooting, burned.
B) Shooting, babies, frozen, toast.
C) Crying, shooting burned, babies.
D) None of above.