Participial Phrases Quiz 25 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Participial Phrases – Quiz 25
1. As you walk through the trees you will see a beam of light passing through the branches.
A) Having walked between the trees, you can see the sun coming through the branches.
B) Walking between the trees, you can see the sun coming through the branches.
2. Choose the participial phrase:.
A) Calling the babysitter.
B) Take the phone.
C) Just falling.
D) Bring the book.
3. What is the participial phrase modifying (describing)?The dog running across the street almost got hit by a car.
A) Dog.
B) Running.
C) Car.
D) Street.
4. What is the best way to join the following two sentences using an appositive phrase?Diamond is the hardest mineral in the world. It is a form of pure carbon.
A) Made of pure carbon, diamond is the hardest mineral in the world.
B) Diamond, is a form of pure carbon, is the hardest mineral in the world.
C) Diamond, the hardest mineral in the world, is a form of pure carbon.
D) The hardest mineral in the world, is a form of pure carbon.
5. How many participles are in the following sentence? Having rushed through the extended essay, Joseph worried that he didn't put all the needed information for a passing score.
A) 0.
B) 4.
C) 6.
D) 2.
6. Tourists walk back to their hotel after watching the sunset on the rocks.
A) Watching the sun set at the rock, the visitors walked back to their hotel.
B) Having watched the sun set at the rock, the visitors walked back to their hotel.
7. Find the PARTICIPLE. Melted snow is such a mess.
A) Snow.
B) Mess.
C) Is.
D) Melted.
8. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence.The doctor, hoping for the best, examined the X-rays.
A) The X-rays.
B) The doctor.
C) Examined the X-rays.
D) Hoping for the best.
9. Select the sentence that does NOT contain a participial phrase.a) The flowers, blooming in the garden, smelled delightful.b) The boy, tired from playing all day, fell asleep.c) The teacher, grading papers, stayed late at school.d) The dog barked loudly.
A) A.
B) B.
C) D.
D) C.
10. The abandoned house was never visited on Halloween. Identify the participle.
A) Abandoned.
B) House.
C) Halloween.
D) Was.
11. Emma Sue was delighted when Professor Nguyen returned her perfect calculus test with an ear-to-ear grin.
A) No! This sentence is error free!.
B) This sentence does not have a verb.
C) This sentence has a spelling error.
D) Yes! This sentence has a misplaced or dangling modifier!.
12. Defying gravity, the magician surprised the audience by levitating above the ground.
A) Defying gravity.
B) Above the ground.
C) Levitating.
D) Magician.
13. Find the sentence with an appositive phrase.
A) The bald eagle, the largest bird in North America, could way up to 16 pounds.
B) Did you know, Emily, that only two types of eels are dangerous?.
C) A dormouse choose paper, piles it and sleeps under it.
D) None of above.
14. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?The tourists admired the painting hanging in the museum.
A) Museum.
B) Painting.
C) Hanging.
D) Tourists.
15. Cal gave a stirring speech.
A) Participle.
B) Verb.
C) Gerund.
D) None of above.
16. The children's favorite dishes were the stuffed turkey and the baked apples.
A) Were.
B) Turkey, apples.
C) Dishes.
D) Stuffed, baked.
17. Which of the following sentences contains a participial phrase?a) The cat meowed loudly.b) She walked to the park.c) Smiling happily, he waved goodbye.d) The car drove quickly.
A) A.
B) D.
C) C.
D) B.
18. Identify the participle(s). The drowning boy struggled to keep his head above the water.
A) Drowning.
B) Struggled.
C) Drowning, struggled.
D) None of above.
19. What is a sentence fragment?.
A) A group of words that does not express a complete thought. .
B) A complete sentence with a subject and predicate.
C) A sentence that is too short.
D) None of above.
20. The moving van was late.
A) Participle.
B) Verb.
C) Gerund.
D) None of above.
21. Identify the participle in the following sentence. The prison guards looked all around, but the escaped prisoner could not be located.
A) Escaped.
B) Located.
C) No participle present.
D) Looked.
22. Where's the participial phrase?The road leading to the lake has been washed away.
A) Leading to the lake.
B) Has been washed.
C) Leading.
D) To the lake.
23. Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct placement of commas in a participial phrase.
A) The man wearing a hat walked down the street.
B) The man wearing, a hat walked down the street.
C) The man, wearing a hat, walked down the street.
D) The man wearing a hat, walked down the street.
24. What word can be defined as agreeable; being friendly and sociable.
A) Amiable.
B) Dubious.
C) Hospitable.
D) Frivolous.
25. Find the participle phrase:The computer, struck by lightning, erased all of my important files.
A) Struck by lightning.
B) The computer.
C) Erased.
D) All of my important files.