This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Prepositions > Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Officers Lex and Gomez heard five or six gunshots and ran toward them A) Officer Lex and Gomez. B) Toward them. C) Heard five or six gunshots. D) And ran toward them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Toward them. 2. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: A) The couple. B) Would not stop. C) Stop laughing. D) Behind us. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behind us. 3. What do prepositions do? A) Show an action. B) They are people, places, things or ideas. C) Tells where the house is. D) Show relationships between two different things in the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Show relationships between two different things in the sentence. 4. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence.Mia is in front of my sister. A) In front. B) In front of my sister. C) Of my sister. D) Mia is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In front of my sister. 5. We walked down the block and rested. A) Walked. B) Block. C) Around. D) Down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Down. 6. What is the PREPOSITION in the following sentence? She has been gone since yesterday. A) Yesterday. B) Been. C) Since. D) Has. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Since. 7. Identify the preposition in the sentence:'The cat is on the roof.' A) In. B) On. C) Under. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On. 8. Choose the correct Preposition:I go to school ..... my friend A) Across. B) For. C) With. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With. 9. What is the PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE in the following sentence? He likes to read in the afternoon. A) In the afternoon. B) He likes. C) In the. D) To read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the afternoon. 10. True or False:A comma is required in the following sentence:'After the long and exhausting soccer practice the team went out for ice cream.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. How can you best revise this sentence to make it more concise and natural-sounding? 'That's the store I got my shoes from.' A) That's the store at where I got my shoes. B) From which store did I get my shoes?. C) The sentence is fine as it is. D) That's the store from which I got my shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sentence is fine as it is. 12. Complete the sentence:The dog ran ..... the park. A) Through. B) Into. C) Around. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through. 13. Is there an indirect object in this:His grandmother sends him five dollars on his birthday every year. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 14. What is the object of the preposition in 'outside the window'? A) Outside. B) The birds. C) The. D) Window. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Window. 15. No one forced him to come to work when he was ill, he did it ..... his own free will. A) For. B) From. C) Off. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Of. 16. Is there an indirect object in this?They tried giving their baby some mashed peas. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 17. What is the prepositional phrase?Ellen was behind the others. A) Behind the others. B) Ellen was. C) The others. D) Was behind the others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behind the others. 18. Choose the sentence that correctly uses the preposition inside. A) The note was outside the envelope instead. B) The note was in side the envelope open. C) The note was inside the envelope. D) The note was inside of across the envelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The note was inside the envelope. 19. What is the preposition in this sentence? Students must stay inside the classroom. A) Inside. B) Must. C) Students. D) Stay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inside. 20. Select the preposition.During the winter the mountains are covered with snow. A) Are. B) Winter. C) Covered. D) During. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) During. 21. What is the prepositional phrase?The patriots looked across the river. A) Across the river. B) Looked. C) The patriots. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Across the river. 22. What do all prepositional phrases have in common? A) They all begin with prepositions. B) They all begin with adjectives. C) They all begin with adverbs. D) They all begin with nouns or pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They all begin with prepositions. 23. What is the object of the preposition in the sentence below?The post office is just around the corner. A) Corner. B) Around. C) Office. D) Post. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corner. 24. Choose the OBJECT of the preposition.The pizza in the oven is mine. A) Is. B) Pizza. C) Mine. D) Oven. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oven. 25. What is the preposition in the sentence?Lisa runs to the bust stop. A) To. B) And. C) Quickly. D) She. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 26. Circle the correct preposition to complete the sentence:The cat is hiding ..... the bed. A) On. B) Under. C) Between. D) Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under. 27. True or False:'During the movie' is a prepositional phrase in the sentence 'She fell asleep during the movie.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. Identify the prepositionShe went inside to eat. A) To. B) Eat. C) She. D) Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inside. 29. In the sentence 'I found my keys under the sofa, ' which word is the preposition? A) Found. B) Sofa. C) Under. D) Keys. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under. 30. Mr. Toner lives ..... the firestation and thehospital. A) Near. B) Before. C) Into. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPrepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 1Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 2Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 3Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 4Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 5Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 6Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 7Prepositions And Prepositional Phrases Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books