This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Adjectives > Adjectives, Adverbs And Prepositions – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Adjectives, Adverbs And Prepositions Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Lucy has never had an accident. She drives more ..... than other drivers. A) Careful. B) Carefully. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carefully. 2. Identify what type of Preposition is used in this sentence.The toddler draws the pictures with a crayon. A) Preposition of Agent. B) Preposition of Manner. C) Preposition of Instrument. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preposition of Instrument. 3. Exercise 1:Identifying Prep PhrasesIdentify the prepositional phrase in the sentence.4. Tails also help animals with other jobs, too. A) With other jobs, too. B) With other. C) With other jobs. D) Also help. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With other jobs. 4. Identify adjectives:Ambitious freshmen already want to improve their initial PSAT scores. A) Already, improve. B) Ambitious, initial. C) Want to improve. D) Freshmen, scores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambitious, initial. 5. In each blank provided in the following paragraph, write an appropriate adjective from the list below. Check to be sure that your completed paragraph makes sense. A (2) fragrant odor of (3) rotten vegetation and (4) many flowers fills the (5) ..... air. A) Cold. B) Silent. C) Humid. D) Dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humid. 6. We're going to have a picnic ..... Saturday afternoon. Would you like to come? A) In. B) On. C) At. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On. 7. Identify the adverbs:John quickly explained the math homework yesterday. A) Quickly, math. B) John, yesterday. C) Quickly, yesterday. D) Math, homework. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quickly, yesterday. 8. Choose the preposition:A beautiful line of trees runs along the river. A) The. B) Of. C) A. D) Runs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of. 9. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?Please place the forks and knives on the table. A) Forks and knives. B) On the table. C) Please place. D) Table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the table. 10. Identify the adverb: ..... After lunch we will go outside and play a quick kickball game. A) Quick. B) After. C) Will. D) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outside. 11. Identify the preposition(s): ..... After lunch we will go outside and play a quick kickball game. A) Will go. B) Lunch. C) Outside. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After. 12. Do you want to go to the beach ..... have a swim ..... go to the pool instead. A) To, or. B) So, yet. C) But, whether. D) As, so. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To, or. 13. What do adverbs modify or describe? A) Nouns and pronouns. B) Verbs. C) Prepositions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbs. 14. I did not want ..... cake because I wasn't hungry. A) None. B) Any. C) Every. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any. 15. I got a few emails but I didn't answer ..... A) Neither. B) None. C) Either. D) Any. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any. 16. Identify the subordinating conjunction:Mrs. Nelson wants us to bring our WNB every day because we use it almost every day. A) Because. B) Bring. C) Almost. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because. 17. Which word from the sentence is an adverb? I always enjoy spending time with her. A) With. B) Spending. C) Always. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Always. 18. Complete the sentence with the correct orderI ..... ..... for groceries on Saturday mornings A) Shop usually. B) Usually shop. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Usually shop. 19. Which word from the sentence is a preposition? The boat moved calmly through the water. A) Through. B) Moved. C) Calmly. D) Boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through. 20. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence below. The boy had a pencil behind his ear. A) A pencil behind. B) Had a pencil. C) Behind his ear. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behind his ear. 21. What is ..... (far) planet from Earth? A) The most farthest. B) The farther. C) The farthest. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The farthest. 22. What is the conjunction in this sentence:Donald ate all his dinner, so he was able to have dessert. A) Dinner. B) Ate. C) Donald. D) So. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) So. 23. Identify the adjective:I eat Chinese food on Thursdays. A) Thursdays. B) Chinese. C) Eat. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chinese. 24. I'm rather good at raking leaves into the shape of a seahorse. A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Preposition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 25. Which conjunction should you use to connect the following sentences? Brock is a good cook. He has many brothers and sisters. A) And. B) For. C) But. D) Nor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For. 26. Thanks ..... our guide we didn't get lost. A) From. B) Of. C) To. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To. 27. Drivers can see the yellow buses ..... far away. A) To. B) With. C) From. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From. 28. In the sentence: "Give me ..... blue water bottle" What is the correct demonstrative adjective? A) This. B) That. C) These. D) Those. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That. 29. The comma at the end of a quotation belongs ..... A) Inside the quotation marks. B) Outside the quotation marks. C) Up your nose. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inside the quotation marks. 30. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?After a few minutes we realized Jesse wasn't home. A) Wasn't home. B) After a few minutes. C) Realized Jesse. D) We realized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After a few minutes. 31. Which of the following is NOT in the sentence below?Coffee farmers harvest whole beans and turn them into products for consumers. A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Preposition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 32. Which comma rule applies to the following sentence:We are planning a family vacation to Orlando, Florida, this summer. A) Items in a series. B) City/state. C) Compound sentence. D) Between 2 adjectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) City/state. 33. How many adjectives are in this sentence?"I have four brothers, three sisters, and two cute brown kittens." A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 34. Identify the preposition(s): ..... The new kid at school is a friend of mine. A) Mine. B) Kid. C) Of. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of. 35. Identify the adjective from the following options:The class was nervous about the test. A) Class. B) The. C) Test. D) About. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The. 36. Which of the following lists all the adjectives (including articles and proper adjectives) in the sentence: "Yearly, biologists and naturalists gather to study the quiet, secret realm of the forests that yield many benefits to the world's population." ? A) The, quiet, secret, many, world's. B) Biologists, naturalists, forests, benefits. C) Realm, population, gather, study. D) Yearly, gather, study, yield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The, quiet, secret, many, world's. 37. Exercise 1:Recognizing Nouns Used as AdjectivesIdentify the Noun(s) used as Adjective(s).1. Betty glanced at the storm clouds. A) Clouds. B) Glanced. C) Storm. D) Betty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Storm. 38. There aren't ..... in my house. A) Windows enough. B) Enough windows. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enough windows. 39. In the rain forest, (1) ..... swarms of mosquitoes hover around the trees. A) Little. B) Few. C) Many. D) Much. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Many. 40. He wrote five books but ..... of them were very good. A) None. B) Any. C) No. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) None. 41. I saw Tom ..... days ago. A) A few. B) A little. C) Few. D) Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A few. 42. Exercise 1:Recognizing AdjectivesIdentify the Adjective(s) in the sentence.3. With gray faces and hesitant steps, they approached the abandoned house. A) Gray, abandoned. B) Hesitant, steps, abandoned. C) Gray, hesitant, abandoned. D) Abandoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gray, hesitant, abandoned. 43. What is the preposition in this sentence?"The movie will start in one minute."i A) In. B) Will. C) Movie. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In. 44. Sandra and Angela lost ..... in front of the stadium A) Yourselves. B) Themselves. C) Herself. D) Each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Each other. 45. Identify the adverb in the sentence below. We played at the park yesterday. A) Yesterday. B) Played. C) We. D) Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yesterday. 46. Which of the following is NOT an adverb? A) Jump. B) Soon. C) Before. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jump. 47. What is the preposition?You can ride the train after dinner and dishes are done. A) After. B) Are. C) Can. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After. 48. Which of the following words in the sentence is an adjective? (Include articles and proper adjectives.)"Exotic varieties of mosses, cacti, ferns, and orchids present unusual shapes and bright colors that are unknown in our American forests." A) Forests. B) Exotic. C) Mosses. D) Present. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exotic. 49. ..... are the multiple-word conjunctions. These usually work in pairs or in conjunction with each other. A) Correlative conjunctions. B) Coordinating conjunctions. C) Subordinating conjunctions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlative conjunctions. 50. Tom drove ..... , because of the ..... rain A) Carefully, heavily. B) Careful, heavy. C) Carefully, heavy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carefully, heavy. 51. Select the correct word to fill in the blank.You ask the ..... interesting questions. A) More. B) Most. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most. 52. Prepositions show relationships such as: A) A point in time. B) Direction. C) Where something is. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 53. What part of speech usually ends in "-ly" ? A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Interjection. D) Preposition. E) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 54. Choose the BEST article to complete the sentence:This is ..... photo of my family. A) A. B) The. C) An. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 55. What kind of conjunction is used in the following sentence?Whether we go home or to the movies, we still will enjoy the day. A) Correlative. B) Subordinating. C) $^{}$coordinating. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlative. 56. Choose the adjective from the sentence" Deja went to the beach with her pink bag." A) Pink. B) Bag. C) Went. D) Beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pink. 57. Exercise 2:Recognizing Proper and Compound AdjectivesIdentify the Proper and Compound Adjective(s) in the sentence.11. The red-cheeked girl ate Turkish taffy. A) Red-cheeked, girl. B) Red-cheeked, Turkish. C) Girl, Turkish. D) Turkish, taffy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red-cheeked, Turkish. 58. Choose the correct answer to fill in the blanks:I prefer ..... ring on my finger to ..... one in the store. A) That, that. B) This, this. C) This, that. D) That, this. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This, that. 59. I live in a busy city. It is ..... a coastal area. A) On. B) In. C) With. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 60. Colors are ..... A) Nouns. B) Adjectives. C) Averbs. D) Verbs. 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