Participial Phrases Quiz 24 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📘 Participial Phrases – Quiz 24
1. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Some kinds of exercise require planning and expense.
A) There is no participial phrase. .
B) Require planning.
C) Planning and expense.
D) None of above.
2. What is a dangling participle?.
A) A participial phrase in the wrong place.
B) A prepositional phrase in the wrong place.
C) A phrase at the end of a sentence.
D) A phrase that describes falling off of something.
3. In which sentence is the participial phrase capitalized?.
A) THE HAPPY COACH waved at the fans cheering in the upper deck.
B) The happy coach waved at the fans CHEERING IN THE UPPER DECK.
C) The happy coach WAVED AT THE FANS cheering in the upper deck.
D) The happy COACH WAVED AT THE FANS cheering in the upper deck.
4. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence.Poe, suffering great tragedy in his life, wrote disturbing stories.
A) Wrote disturbing stories.
B) Poe wrote disturbing stories.
C) Suffering great tragedy in his life.
D) Stories.
5. Jeff Glor, a CBS news reporter, has a very nice smile. What interrupter am I seeing?.
A) Appositive.
B) Participial Phrase.
6. Identify the Participial Phrase in the following sentence. The swinging door makes scary noises at night.
A) Noises.
B) Makes scary.
C) The swinging door.
D) At night.
7. Campfires built with your own hands give you a sense of accomplishment.
A) Participial phrase.
B) Gerund phrase.
8. Identify the participle in the sentence:I did not want to eat the burned potatoes that my mother cooked.
A) Cooked.
B) Want.
C) Mother.
D) Burned.
9. As part of his exercise regimen, Jack made walking every day a priority.
A) Gerund phrase.
B) Participial phrase.
10. True or False? If a word ends in-ed or-ing, it must be a verb.
A) False.
B) True.
11. Identify participial phrases:Relaxing on his back patio, Jeff fell asleep.
A) Relaxing on his back patio.
B) Relaxing on his back.
C) Jeff feel asleep.
D) None of above.
12. Find the participle:The children took off their snowy jackets and crowded by the warming fire.
A) Took.
B) Warming.
C) Crowded.
D) Snowy.
13. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Before she left, my mom told us about the new library planned for this neighborhood.
A) Planned for this neighborhood.
B) Before she left.
C) About the new library.
D) Told us about.
14. Which of the following is an example of a participial phrase used as an adjective?.
A) The cat chased the mouse.
B) Sitting on the porch, she enjoyed the sunset.
C) Running down the street, he shouted for help.
D) She swims in the pool.
15. Find the participial phrase:The pilot pushed on the yoke, changing the direction of the plane.
A) Direction of the plane.
B) The pilot pushed on the yoke.
C) Changing the direction of the plane.
D) Pushed on the yoke.
16. The students playing in the jazz band were talented. Identify the participial phrase.
A) Playing in the jazz band.
B) Were talented.
C) Students playing.
D) Jazz band.
17. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence:Records, cracked and warped, were in the old trunk in the attic.
A) Cracked and warped.
B) Records.
C) Warped.
D) Were in the old trunk.
18. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence.2. The slouching model soon found herself out of a job. (a).
A) A slouching.
B) Found herself out of a job.
C) Found herself.
D) Soon found herself.
19. EXERCISE 1:IDENTIFYING PARTICIPIAL PHRASES. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence. The man working at that desk rarely takes a break.
A) Working at that desk.
B) Rarely takes a break.
C) Working at that desk rarely takes a break.
D) Man working at that desk.
20. What is the participial phrase?The dog running across the street almost got hit by a car.
A) Running across the street.
B) Running across.
C) Running.
D) Across the street.
21. According to this sentence, what is running down the hallway? Running down the hallway, the lights were left on in the classroom.
A) No one.
B) The classroom.
C) The lights.
D) The narrator.
22. Where's the participial phrase?Coming home, Scott dreamed of being a world-famous athlete.
A) A world-famous athlete.
B) Dreamed of being.
C) Scott dreamed.
D) Coming home.
23. Identify the participial phrase:The reporter describing the fiesta didn't reveal all of the colorful details.
A) Describing the fiesta.
B) Didn't reveal.
C) All of the colorful details.
D) None of above.
24. Which of the following is a present participial phrase describing a black hole?A black hole is a region of space that is _____ matter.
A) Attracting.
B) Forming.
C) Attracting into.
D) None of above.
25. How is the red word functioning in the following sentence? After the game, the losing team went home with no trophy.
A) Verb.
B) Direct object.
C) Subject.
D) Adjective.