Participial Phrases Quiz 20 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Participial Phrases – Quiz 20
1. What is the italic word modifying in the following sentence?Sam, baffled by what had happened, grew silent.
A) Grew.
B) By what had happened.
C) Sam.
D) Silent.
2. "Feeling hungry I cooked myself some hot dogs.".
A) "Feeling hungry, I cooked myself, some hot dogs.".
B) No Change.
C) "Feeling hungry, I cooked myself some hot dogs.".
D) "Feeling hungry I cooked, myself some hot dogs.".
3. Find the participle phrase:The girl singing the national anthem is my cousin, Jamie.
A) Is my cousin.
B) Jamie.
C) The girl.
D) Singing the national anthem.
4. Food sealed in cans was given to the campers.
A) To the campers.
B) Sealed in cans.
C) Food.
D) Was given.
5. Any car parked illegally will be towed immediately. Identify the participial phrase.
A) Parked illegally.
B) Will be towed immediately.
C) Any car parked.
D) Will be.
6. What is being identified by the following appositive:Most of the town's natives did their shopping on King Street, the town's shopping stripe, a slice of chain department stores, auto dealerships, fast-food restaurants.
A) Place.
B) Person.
C) Thing.
D) None of above.
7. Which is correctly punctuated?.
A) Waiting for her ride to school Marie, saw a deer leap into the woods.
B) Waiting for her ride to school. Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
C) Waiting for her ride to school, Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
D) Waiting, for her ride to school, Marie saw a deer leap into the woods.
8. Read the sentence. The cow standing in the meadow chewed contentedly on grass. What is the participial phrase, and which word does it modify?.
A) Standing in the meadow; modifies cow.
B) On grass; modifies chewed.
C) In the meadow; modifies standing.
D) Chewed contentedly; modifies cow.
9. Identify the participial phrase. Mark quickly licked the ice cream dripping down his arm.
A) Dripping down his arm .
B) Quickly licked the ice cream.
C) Licked the ice cream.
D) None of above.
10. Where's the participial phrase?Fifteen men and women, clothed in military uniforms, presented the flags.
A) Clothed in military uniforms.
B) Fifteen men and women.
C) Presented the flags.
D) In military uniforms.
11. The rescue agency is angry at the politics _____ in international aid.
A) To involve.
B) Involved.
C) Involving.
D) Involve.
12. Participles are what part of speech?.
A) Adjectives.
B) Nouns.
C) Adverbs.
D) Conjunctions.
13. What is the red word modifying (describing) in the following sentence? Even though Evan was blind, he had a heightened sense of hearing.
A) Evan.
B) Blind.
C) Sense.
D) Hearing.
14. Identify the participial phrase:'Amazed by the stunning view, they took many photographs.'.
A) Amazed by the stunning view.
B) The stunning view.
C) Took many photographs.
D) Amazed.
15. Scratching her head, Ximena tried to figure out the problem.
A) To figure out.
B) Ximena tried.
C) The problem.
D) Scratching her head.
16. Find the participle:Sally could not sleep with that blinking light from the television's power button.
A) Blinking.
B) Power.
C) Could.
D) Sleep.
17. What words begins a participial phrase?.
A) A, an, the.
B) A word with a verb word ending.
C) Prepositions.
D) A noun.
18. The store sold baked goods packaged in edible tinfoil.
A) Sold.
B) Baked goods.
C) The store.
19. Which one is not the way to make a reduced adjective clause?You can reduce a subject pattern adjective clause as follows.1. 2. 3. 4 _____ .
A) Change the punctuation (commas or no commas).
B) Put the word not at the beginning of a participial phrase to make it negative.
C) Change the verb to a participle.
D) Delete the relative pronoun (who, which, or that).
20. Where's the participial phrase?Chopping the carrots quickly, the chef finished the stew.
A) Chopping the carrots quickly, .
B) Finished the stew.
C) The carrots quickly.
D) The chef finished.
21. What is the participle in the following sentence? The cascading waterfall poured down over the rocks.
A) Cascading.
B) Waterfall.
C) Rocks.
D) Over.
22. Printed on both sides, the test contained seventy-five questions about the American Revolution.
A) Printed on both sides.
B) The test.
C) Contained seventy-five questions.
D) About the American Revolution.
23. Identify the participle:"Devoted soccer fans are looking forward to the season.".
A) Soccer.
B) Looking.
C) Devoted.
D) Forward.
24. Identify the participle(s). Braking too late, Judy hit the stopped car in front of her.
A) Braking, stopped .
B) Braking.
C) Stopped.
D) None of above.
25. Where is the participle or participial phrase in the following sentence? "A young physicist named Herb Anderson walked in, yawning, and helped do a few last-minute checks" (Steve Sheinkin, Bomb, 71.).
A) Yawning.
B) A young physicist.
C) Herb Anderson walked in.
D) A few last-minute checks.