Participial Phrases Quiz 23 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Participial Phrases – Quiz 23
1. Having recorded the results of the experiment, Kate closed her notebook.
A) Having recorded the results of the experiment.
B) Of the experiment.
C) Closed her notebook.
D) None of above.
2. Find the PARTICIPLE. My growling stomach wants food.
A) Stomach.
B) Growling.
C) My.
D) Wants.
3. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence. 1. Expecting good news, the student raced to the mailbox.
A) Good news.
B) Raced.
C) Expecting good news.
D) Raced to the mailbox.
4. Words that are formed from verbs but don't act as verbs are called _____ .
A) Ferrets.
B) Remains.
C) Verbal.
D) Gerbils.
5. Which is correct?.
A) I watched the honey bee moving from flower to flower.
B) Moving from flower to flower, I watched the honey bee.
6. Two of my friends _____ in the school fights last weekend have been arrested by the police.
A) Were involving.
B) Involved.
C) To be involved.
D) Involving.
7. What is the participial phrase in this sentence? The waitress served Gilbert a plate of gray meatloaf sauced with lumpy gravy.
A) Sauced with lumpy gravy.
B) Served Gilbert a plate.
C) Gray meatloaf.
D) Gray meatloaf sauced with lumpy gravy.
8. Find the participial phrase:Yawning widely, the student struggled to stay awake in class.
A) To stay awake.
B) The student struggled.
C) Yawning widely.
D) In class.
9. The shopping trip lasted all day.
A) Participle.
B) Verb.
C) Gerund.
D) None of above.
10. Identify the participle(s). Mandy marveled at the yard covered in a thin layer of sparkling dew.
A) Sparkling.
B) Marveled.
C) Covered.
D) Covered, sparkling.
11. _____ , the books must be returned to the library.
A) Having been finished their exam.
B) Finish their exam.
C) Having finished their exam.
D) Finished their exam.
12. Find the participial phrase:The girl wearing the blue shirt ran down the hallway.
A) Wearing the blue shirt.
B) Ran down the hallway.
C) Down the hallway.
D) The girl wearing.
13. Which of the following is a past participial phrase describing a nebula?A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust that has been _____ by stars.
A) Formed.
B) Forming.
C) Formed by.
D) None of above.
14. What is the phase in red below:Bernard hates buttering toast with a fork.
A) Gerund.
B) Participial.
15. Find the sentence with a prepositional phrase.
A) Put the chicken in the oven.
B) The dog rolled over.
C) The body of a sea turtle is huge.
D) None of above.
16. The first city attacked by the troops was in the middle of the desert.
A) The first city.
B) Was in the middle.
C) Of the desert.
D) Attacked by the troops.
17. Identify the participial phrase. Racing through the woods, her heart pounded as she grew closer to the house.
A) Racing through the woods.
B) Heart pounded.
C) Grew closer.
D) None of above.
18. What is the participial phrase?Three-year-old Holly, delighted by her success, snowboarded down the bunny hill.
A) Delighted by her success.
B) Snowboarded down the bunny hill.
C) Three-year-old Holly.
D) None of above.
19. Does this sentence contain a gerund phrase?Ricky, going down the staircase backward, was very unsteady.
A) Yes.
B) No.
20. Which of the following is not an infinitive?.
A) To Austin.
B) To visualize.
C) To understand.
D) To wonder.
21. Which one is not the step to reduce an adverb clause?.
A) Change the adverb clause verb to the adjective clause.
B) Make sure that the subject of the adverb clause and the subject of theindependent clause are the same.
C) Delete the subject of the adverb clause. If necessary, move it to thesubject position in the independent clause.
D) Change the adverb clause verb to the appropriate participle.
E) Delete or retain the subordinator.
22. Smiling proudly, the little boy pointed to his new toys.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
23. What is the italic word modifying in the following sentence?Ginger, pulling the blue blanket over her head, refused to get out of bed.
A) Ginger.
B) Her head.
C) Get out of bed.
D) The blue blanket.
24. We had eaten our dinner. Then we watched the firework.
A) Having eaten our dinner, we watched the firework.
B) Eating our dinner, we watched the firework.
C) Eating our dinner, we will watch the firework.
D) Having eaten our dinner. We watched the firework.
25. Mandy marveled at the yard covered in a thick layer of snow.
A) Covered in a thick layer of snow.
B) Marveled at the yard.
C) Yard.
D) Mandy.