Participial Phrases Quiz 6 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Participial Phrases – Quiz 6
1. What is a common way to correct a run-on sentence?.
A) Use a semicolon or period to separate the clauses.
B) Remove the subject.
C) Replace it with a fragment.
D) Add a comma.
2. Identify the participle(s). William almost stepped on the snake hidden in the clump of monkey grass.
A) Hidden.
B) Stepped.
C) Stepped, hidden.
D) None of above.
3. Which part of the sentence is a participle? The budding branches remind us that spring is approaching.
A) Remind.
B) Budding.
C) Spring.
D) Branches.
4. Having been on the road for four days, the Todd's were exhausted.
A) Having been on the road for four days.
B) On the road.
C) For four days.
D) None of above.
5. What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?My entire life I have always wanted to be a teacher.
A) To be a teacher.
B) Always wanted.
C) I have.
D) My entire life.
6. Is the highlighted word/phrase a VERB or a PARTICIPLE?Jill and Terry were tired from working out in the yard.
A) Verb/verb phrase.
B) Participle/participle phrase.
7. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:Recently released, the movie has not yet come to our local theaters.
A) Released.
B) Yet.
C) Movie.
D) Has come.
8. Where's the participial phrase?A sentence expressing sudden emotion is called an exclamatory sentence.
A) Expressing sudden emotion.
B) An exclamatory sentence.
C) Is called.
D) A sentence expressing sudden emotion.
9. Does this sentence contain a dangling participle? I saw Arthur running for the bus.
A) Yes.
B) No.
10. I was stirring the stew.
A) Verb.
B) Participle.
C) Gerund.
D) None of above.
11. Which word does the participle experienced describe in the sentence? The experienced skateboarder performed many tricks for the audience.
A) Tricks.
B) Skateboarder.
C) Audience.
D) Performed.
12. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses that she bought last weekend.
A) Looked for her sunglasses.
B) Searching the glove compartment.
C) Bought last weekend.
D) Last weekend.
13. Which group of words in the following sentence makes up the appositive phrase?Michael Jordan the legendary basketball player also played professional baseball for a while.
A) The legendary basketball player.
B) Also played.
C) Professional baseball.
D) Michael Jordan.
14. Identify the Participial Phrase in the following sentence. Walking into the kitchen, I saw a mess on the floor.
A) Walking into the kitchen, .
B) A mess.
C) I saw.
D) On the floor.
15. The trophy won by the team will be on display in the school hall. What is the participle?.
A) Display.
B) Team.
C) Trophy.
D) Won.
16. Change this adjective clause into participial phrase:The team members, who looked happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.
A) The team members, looking happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.
B) The team members, looked happy after their victory, were cheered by the fans.
C) The team members, who werelooking happy after their victory, were cheered by the fas.
D) None of above.
17. The boy could not comprehend the story, stumped by the very large vocabulary.
A) Participial Phrase.
B) Independent Clause.
C) Absolute Phrase.
D) Appositive phrase.
18. Find the Gerund Phrase:Most people would agree that respecting mothers is important every day of the year.
A) Of the year.
B) Respecting mothers is important.
C) Respecting mothers.
D) Is important every day of the year.
19. What is a participle?.
A) A verb that acts as a verb.
B) A noun that acts like a verb.
C) A verb that acts as an adjective.
D) A verb that acts as a noun.
20. Trying to put them out, the flames were burning me.
A) No Change.
B) Trying to put them out the flames were burning me.
C) Trying to put them out, I was being burned by the flames.
D) Trying to put out the flames, they were burning me.
21. Choose the correct participle We should help to rebuild houses _____ by the storm.
A) Destroyed.
B) Destroying.
22. The cookies, baked this morning, were all gone by five o'clock.
A) Baked this morining.
B) By five o'clock.
C) Were all gone.
D) None of above.
23. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.
A) Sweeping across.
B) Hunted their prey.
C) Sweeping across the night sky.
D) Across the night sky.
24. Which of the following is the best modifier? As we were walking in the woods, we food a house _____ by huge tree roots.
A) Destroying.
B) Which destoryed.
C) Destroyed.
D) Which destorying.
25. What happens if a participial phrase fails to include a target?.
A) It becomes a dangling modifier.
B) It becomes a complete sentence.
C) It becomes a misplaced modifier.
D) It becomes a gerund phrase.