Participial Phrases Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Participial Phrases – Quiz 17
1. Sitting in the freezer, the caveman stayed fresh.
A) Fresh.
B) Stayed.
C) The caveman.
D) Sitting in the freezer.
2. Change to the progressive passive participle! (present action)The music which is being played now is by Bach.
A) The music is now being played is by Bach.
B) The music is being played now is by Bach.
C) The music being played now is by Bach.
D) The music being playing now is by Bach.
3. What is the italic word modifying in the following sentence?Puttering around in his basement workshop, Dad is able to forget the troubles of the day.
A) Workshop.
B) Around in his basement.
C) Dad.
D) The troubles of the day.
4. Find the participial phrase:Food frozen for over five years tastes icky.
A) Tastes icky.
B) Frozen food.
C) Five years.
D) Frozen for over five years.
5. Which word in the following sentence is the participle:Some ducks sat on a floating log in the river.
A) Sat.
B) Some.
C) Log.
D) Floating.
6. As we were walking in the woods, we food a house _____ by huge tree roots.
A) Destroyed.
B) Which destorying.
C) Destroying.
D) Which destoryed.
7. Choose each type of pollution with its relevant words/ phrases3. lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater, contamination.
A) Water pollution.
B) Soil pollution.
C) Noise pollution.
D) None of above.
8. Identify the participle of the following sentence:Children interested in music early develop strong intellectual skills.
A) Develop.
B) Interested.
C) Strong.
D) Early.
9. Identify the participle or participle phrase in the following sentence:Laughing at her own joke, Mrs. Newell ended her class.
A) Class.
B) Joke.
C) Laughing at her own joke.
D) Ended her class.
10. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence. 5. The soccer players, having grown faint from thirst, gratefully accepted the cold oranges.
A) Gratefully accepted the cold oranges.
B) Accepted the cold oranges.
C) Having grown faint from thirst.
D) Soccer.
11. What is being identified by the following appositive:In New York, the most important state in any Presidential race, and a state where politics were particularly sensitive to the iews of various nationality and minority groups, Democrats were joyous and Republicans angry and gloomy.
A) Place.
B) Person.
C) Thing.
D) None of above.
12. My least favorite part of this job is scraping the paint off the woodwork.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
13. Select the correctly punctuated participial phrase from the drop-down menu to add it to the sentence. Cortney _____ found dozens of interesting seashells.
A) , wading in the shallow water, .
B) Wading in the shallow water,.
C) Wading in the shallow water.
D) , wading in the shallow water.
14. Early films were still pictures projected on a wall.
A) Projected.
B) Early.
C) Still.
D) Wall.
15. What is the phase in red below:The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.
A) Participial.
B) Gerund.
16. In the following sentence, what is the function of the infinitive phrase?To smile at others brings joy to yourself.
A) Subject.
B) Adverb.
C) Adjective.
D) Direct object.
17. Who is pitching today?.
A) Verb.
B) Participle.
C) Gerund.
D) None of above.
18. Identify the participle(s).Marsha smiled sadly at the wilting flower.
A) Smiled.
B) Wilting.
C) Smiled, wilting.
D) Sadly.
19. He felt very lonely listening to the sounds of nature.
A) Listening to the sound of nature, the man felt very alone.
B) Having listened to the sound of nature, the man felt very alone.
20. Participles are words that are formed from verbs but act as.
A) Nouns.
B) Verbs.
C) Adjectives.
D) Pronouns.
21. Find the participle:The ship sailed within striking distance.
A) Ship.
B) Distance.
C) Striking.
D) Sailed.
22. Present participles are removable. Gerunds (-ing noun phrases) are not. Which sentence shows a removable present participle?.
A) Feeling so much better after the nap, Gunster dressed and went out.
B) Feeling so much better after the nap relieved Gunster.
23. The baby's teeth did not look very shiny. They were a bit yellowish.
A) Looking a bit yellowish, the baby's teeth were a bit shiny.
B) Not look very shiny, the baby's teeth were a bit yellowish.
C) Not looking very shiny, the baby's teeth were a bit yellowish.
D) Not look very shiny. The baby's teeth were a bit yellowish.
24. Find the Gerund Phrase:Playing jokes on people seems a strange way to celebrate a holiday.
A) Playing jokes.
B) To celebrate.
C) Playing jokes on people.
D) To celebrate a holiday.
25. Write a sentence using a participial phrase as an adjective to describe a house.
A) The house, surrounded by blooming flowers, looked picturesque.
B) The house, filled with noisy animals, looked serene.
C) The house, built with bricks, looked like a mansion.
D) The house, located near a busy street, looked peaceful.