Participial Phrases Quiz 18 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Participial Phrases – Quiz 18
1. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?Hiding under the blanket, the cat meowed during the storm.
A) Blanket.
B) Cat.
C) Hiding.
D) Meowed.
2. Pitching is our weakness.
A) Gerund .
B) Verb.
C) Participle.
D) None of above.
3. Present participles _____ .
A) End in-ing.
B) End in-ed.
C) End in-ing or-ed.
D) None of above.
4. Find the Gerund Phrase:Making New Year's Resolutions is another tradition to think about adopting.
A) Is another tradition.
B) Making.
C) To think about adopting.
D) Making New Year's Resolutions.
5. What is the participial phrase?The tourists admired the painting hanging in the museum.
A) In the museum.
B) Hanging in the museum.
C) Painting hanging in the museum.
D) Admired the painting.
6. What is the phase in red below:Walking on the beach, Delores dodged jellyfish that had washed ashore.
A) Participial.
B) Gerund.
7. Identify the present participial phrase:Removing his coat, Jack rushed to the river.
A) Removing his coat.
B) Rushed to the river.
C) Jack.
D) None of above.
8. What is the most common mistake with introductory participial phrases?.
A) Dangling them.
B) Not using enough modifiers.
C) Using the wrong tense.
D) Misplacing them.
9. Who are you talking about?.
A) I'm talking about the elderly woman sitting next to Javier.
B) I'm talking about of the elderly woman is sitting next to Javier.
C) I'm talking about the elderly woman sit next to Javier.
D) None of above.
10. Identify the participial phrase. The exhausted runner gasping for breath crossed the finish line in record time.
A) Gasping for breath.
B) Exhausted runner.
C) Crossed the finish line in record time.
D) None of above.
11. A gerund phrase (can / cannot) be removed from a sentence without destroying is basic sense.
A) Cannot.
B) Can.
12. The ski run covered with the most new powder attracted huge crowds of skiers.
A) Huge crowds of skiers.
B) The ski run.
C) Attracted.
D) Covered with the most new powder.
13. What should be done if too much distance separates an introductory participial phrase and its target?.
A) Leave it as it is.
B) Change the target.
C) Move the phrase closer to the target.
D) Remove the phrase.
14. Rochelle and her sister finally went shopping for shoes.
A) Participle.
B) Gerund.
15. Which sentence contains a present participial phrase?.
A) Driving a nice car, Lisa impressed her friends.
B) Lisa, my cousin, drives a nice car.
16. Gerunds are similar to verbs, but they also name things, so they act like _____ .
A) Verbs.
B) Nouns.
C) Adjectives.
D) Adverbs.
17. What is the participial phrase?Miss Perry, talking about participial phrases, tripped over the pencil.
A) Over the pencil.
B) Tripped over the pencil.
C) Talking about participial phrases.
D) Talking about.
18. What is the participial phrase?Knocking over the trashcan, the raccoon ate the leftovers.
A) Knocking over the trashcan.
B) Knocking.
C) Over the trashcan.
D) Ate the leftovers.
19. What is the participial phrase?The students left the school, celebrating the start of summer.
A) Celebrating the start of summer.
B) The students left the school.
20. What is the participial phrase in this sentence? Sitting at the lunch table, Sabrina ate her tuna sandwich with absolute delight.
A) Sitting at the lunch table.
B) Lunch table.
C) Sitting.
D) Ate her tuna sandwich.
21. What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?To give to others is so important.
A) Is so important.
B) To others.
C) So important.
D) To give to others.
22. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence:The children, fidgeting noisily, waited eagerly for recess.
A) For recess.
B) Waited eagerly.
C) The children.
D) Fidgeting noisily.
23. What is the purpose of adding a participle or participial phrase?.
A) To persuade an audience.
B) To describe the imagery more clearly.
C) To conclude the author's point.
D) To evoke fear in the reader.
24. What happens if a participial phrase concludes a main clause and modifies a word farther up in the sentence?.
A) A comma is needed.
B) No punctuation is needed.
C) A colon is needed.
D) A semicolon is needed.
25. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:By the twelfth century, a program challenging to both mind and body had been developed.
A) Challenging to both mind and body.
B) A program challenging.
C) Challenging.
D) None of above.