Participial Phrases Quiz 27 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Participial Phrases – Quiz 27
1. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence.Cindy, exhausted from working all day, lay on the couch.
A) Exhausted from working all day.
B) Cindy.
C) Lay on the couch.
D) Working all day.
2. Does this sentence contain a gerund phrase?Feeling so much better after the nap, Gunster dressed and went out.
A) Yes.
B) No.
3. What word is defined as readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
A) Amiable.
B) Presumptuous.
C) Dubious.
D) Credulity.
4. Rewrite the following sentence using a participial phrase as an adjective:The woman who is reading a book is my aunt.
A) The woman is my aunt, reading a book.
B) The woman, reading a book, is my aunt.
C) My aunt, reading a book, is the woman.
D) The woman is reading a book, my aunt.
5. Which of the following sentences is correct and does NOT contain a dangling or misplaced modifier?.
A) Walking down the street, appeared the car suddenly.
B) Walking down the street, the disappearing car surprised me.
C) Walking down the street, the car suddenly appeared.
D) Walking down the street, I suddenly noticed the car appear.
6. Which of the following sentences correctly uses a comma with a participial phrase?.
A) Exhausted from the long hike the campers set up, their tents.
B) Exhausted from the long hike, the campers set up their tents.
C) Exhausted from the long hike the campers, set up their tents.
D) Exhausted from the long hike the campers set up their tents.
7. Choose the sentence in which the-ing form of the verb is functioning like an adjective.
A) I am relaxing after a long day at the office.
B) A nice hot bath is a so relaxing after a long day.
8. Which part of the sentence is a participle? Nate, Nathan, and Nathaniel took a walking tour of New York City.
A) New York City.
B) Walking tour.
C) Walking.
D) Took.
9. Which part of the sentence is the past participial phrase? EX:Marcus, tired from a long day at work, sat on the sofa and watched his favorite show.
A) Tired from a long day at work .
B) Sat on the sofa.
C) Watched his favorite show.
D) None of above.
10. True or False question?A participle modifies a noun or pronoun.
A) True.
B) False.
11. What is the phase in red below:The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair.
A) Participial.
B) Gerund.
12. Identify the participle(s). Enjoying her victory, Monica jumped around wildly and threw her arms up in celebration.
A) Enjoying, threw.
B) Enjoying.
C) Enjoying, jumped.
D) Enjoying, jumped, threw.
13. What does the participial phrase disturbed by the new boundaries describe in the sentence?Disturbed by the new boundaries, parents attended the school board meeting.
A) Parents.
B) School.
C) Boundaries.
D) Meeting.
14. Standing in the doorway, Deydey held the furs in his arms.
A) Standing in the doorway.
B) Deydey held the furs.
C) In his arms.
D) In the doorway.
15. What is the error in this sentence? Write it correctly on your paper. Waiting for the Hershey bar, the candy machine began to hum loudly.
A) Misplaced modifier.
B) Dangling participle.
16. Going to the beach this summer will be a lot of fun.
A) Participial phrase.
B) Gerund phrase.
17. What does a participial phrase modify?.
A) Adverb.
B) Verb.
C) Adjective.
D) Noun or pronoun.
18. Does this sentence contain a past or present participial phrase?Feeling so much better after the nap, Gunster dressed and went out.
A) Present.
B) Past.
C) Neither.
D) None of above.
19. Raising your eyebrow at someone after they told you something you don't quite believe describes this vocabulary word.
A) Credulity.
B) Frivolous.
C) Presumptuous.
D) Dubious.
20. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:The charging bull thundered across the field.
A) Across.
B) Charging.
C) Bull.
D) Thundered.
21. Participial phrases _____ .
A) Show action AND describe.
B) Act like verbs (show action).
C) Act like adjectives (describe).
D) Are made of marshmallows.
22. What is being identified by the following appositive:Harry was small and tough, a boy going through life with his chin stuck out a mile.
A) Person.
B) Place.
C) Thing.
D) None of above.
23. Which part of the sentence is a participial phrase? My favorite Yeti, scratched from many years of use, still holds ice for 24 hours.
A) Scratched.
B) Scratched from many years of use.
C) My favorite Yeti.
D) Still holds ice for 24 hours.
24. Which group of words in the following sentence makes up the participial phrase?Climbing over the fence the scout leader ripped his uniform.
A) Over the fence.
B) Climbing over the fence.
C) The scout leader.
D) Ripped his uniform.
25. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Yawning widely, the student struggled to stay awake in class.
A) Struggled to stay.
B) In class.
C) Yawning widely.
D) To stay awake.