Participial Phrases Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍

1. What is the error in this sentence? Write it correctly on your paper. I saw an accident walking down the street.

A) Dangling participle.

B) Misplaced modifier.

2. The reporter describing the fiesta didn't reveal all of the colorful details.

A) Describing the fiesta.

B) The reporter.

C) Didn't reveal.

D) All of the colorful details.

3. Which sentence has a past participial phrase?.

A) The audience, impressed with the speaker's words, clapped thunderously.

B) The audience, a group of college freshmen, liked the speaker.

C) The audience, liking the speaker's words, clapped thunderously.

D) None of above.

4. Rohmah:Whose car is that?Dzikra:You mean the one _____ in front of the bookstore.

A) Parked.

B) To park.

C) Parks.

D) Parking.

5. The gushing water was causing a health hazard. What is the participle?.

A) Gushing.

B) Hazard.

C) Water.

D) Health.

6. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:The children, fidgeting noisily, waited eagerly for recess.

A) Fidgeting.

B) Eagerly.

C) Children.

D) Waited.

7. _____ , he wanted to read the book.

A) Seen the movie.

B) To be seen the movie.

C) Having seen the movie.

D) Having saw the movie.

8. Change to participial phrase in two-part objects of verb!We watched (kitten, try, climb, tree).

A) We watched the kitten trying to climb the tree.

B) We, watched the kitten that is trying to climbing the tree.

C) We watching the kitten trying to climbing the tree.

D) We, watching the kitten trying to climbing the tree.

9. Where's the participial phrase?The power lines damaged by the storm needed repairs.

A) Damaged by the storm.

B) Needed repairs.

C) By the storm.

D) The power lines.

10. What noun is the participial phrase modifying? "Turning a corner suddenly, they came upon two vans, a tent, and a company of gypsies encamped by the side of the road" (E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, 70).

A) Gypsies.

B) Corner.

C) They.

D) Road.

11. What noun is the participial phrase modifying?Kelli and Camden had to pick up the puzzle pieces scattered on the floor.

A) Kelli.

B) Pieces.

C) Camden.

D) Puzzle.

12. I'd inch closer and closer, feeling the heat against my face.

A) No Change.

B) I'd inch closer and closer feeling the heat against my face.

C) I'd inch, closer and closer, feeling the heat against my face.

D) I'd inch closer and closer feeling the heat, against my face.

13. Identify the participial phrase used as an adjective in the sentence:Bathed in radiant light, Venus brought love and joy wherever she went.

A) Bathed in radiant light.

B) Brought love and joy.

C) Wherever she went.

D) None of above.

14. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?She was quite far from the windows which were to her left, and behind her were a couple of tall bookcases, containing all the books of the factory library.

A) Containing all the books of the factory library.

B) She was quite far from the windows.

C) Which were to her left.

D) Behind her were a couple of bookcases.

15. Find the participle phrase:The wedding dress worn by Kate Middleton is hanging up in a museum in England today.

A) Hanging in a museum in England today.

B) By Kate Middleton.

C) In a museum.

D) The wedding dress.

16. In which sentence is a participle capitalized?.

A) Some ducks SAT on a floating log in the river.

B) Some ducks sat on floating LOG in the river.

C) Some ducks sat on a FLOATING log in the river.

D) SOME ducks sat on a floating log in the river.

17. Identify the participial phrase!The young woman, running to catch the bus, stumbled and fell.

A) Running to catch the bus.

B) The young woman.

C) Stumbled and fell.

D) The young woman, running to catch the bus.

18. Identify the Appositive Phrase(s) in the following sentence:The dawn came quickly now, a wash, a glow, a lightness, and then an explosion of fire.

A) A wash.

19. What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?Eating a balanced diet allows a person to keep healthy.

A) To keep healthy.

B) Eating a balanced diet.

C) Balanced.

D) Allows a person.

20. Identify the participial phrase. The sun, rising in the sky, dispelled the mists.

A) Rising in the sky.

B) The sun.

C) Dispelled the mists.

D) None of above.

21. What is the participial phrase in the sentence? The dog panting in the backyard needed water.

A) Panting in the backyard.

B) Needed water.

C) In the backyard.

D) The dog panting.

22. Choose the correct participle form Books _____ onto the cart will be put back when the library closes at 5:00 p.m.

A) Placed.

B) Placing.

23. Find the Gerund Phrase:Coloring eggs is an activity that belongs to another holiday.

A) Coloring eggs.

B) To another holiday.

C) Coloring.

D) Coloring eggs is an activity.

24. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:The papers, aged and yellowed, were found in the bottom of the file cabinet.

A) File.

B) Found.

C) Aged.

25. Identify the participle:"Frozen blueberries are his favorite dessert.".

A) Blueberries.

B) Frozen.

C) Dessert.

D) Favorite.