This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Participles – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Participles Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Moving is always troublesome. A) Verb. B) Participle. C) Gerund. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gerund. 2. Identify the participle in the following sentence:Yawning, Kelly made her way to bed. A) Bed. B) Kelly. C) Yawning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yawning. 3. My clothes have shrunk! A) Past part. B) Past. C) Infinitive. D) Present part. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past part. 4. What is the participle in the following sentence:A new tennis ball, covered thickly with fuzz, bounces a bit slowly. A) Fuzz. B) Thickly. C) Covered. D) Bounces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Covered. 5. Which of the following is a participle phrase? A) Loudly barking. B) The dog barked. C) Barking loudly. D) Barked loudly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barking loudly. 6. Complete the sentence with the participle:The ..... pizza was delicious. A) Baking. B) Bakes. C) Bake. D) Baked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baked. 7. What is the infinitive in the following sentence:Sarah's deepest desire was to perform. A) Deepest desire. B) Sarah's deepest. C) Was to. D) To perform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To perform. 8. Complete the sentence: ..... by the news, she decided to call her friend. A) Shock. B) Shocked. C) Shocking. D) Shocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shocked. 9. I was surprised at John's being absent. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerund. 10. Jumping over the fence, the thief escaped. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 11. Dinner ..... over, they returned home. A) Being. B) Is. C) Was. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being. 12. Which sentence contains a participle phrase? A) Running quickly, he reached the bus stop. B) The cat sleeps on the windowsill. C) The dog barks loudly. D) She reads the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Running quickly, he reached the bus stop. 13. Which word is a participle in this sentence? 'The barking dog woke up the entire neighborhood.' A) Dog. B) Neighborhood. C) Woke. D) Barking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barking. 14. It was a very ..... question. None of the students was able to answer it. A) Challened. B) Challenged. C) Challening. D) Challenging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Challenging. 15. Although COVID19 has really changed how we do things in our classroom, we have ..... to make the best of our situation. A) Chose. B) Choose. C) Chosen. D) Chosed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chosen. 16. What is the past participle of "walk" A) Walked. B) Walking. C) Walks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walked. 17. Which of the following has a past participle? A) I made a cake today. B) I make a cake today. C) I have made a cake today. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I have made a cake today. 18. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence.3. The key witness, protected by two guards, has arrived. A) Protected by two guards. B) Arrived. C) Key. D) By two guards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protected by two guards. 19. What type of participle is used in the sentence: "Running quickly, she caught the bus." A) Past participle. B) Present participle. C) Perfect participle. D) Future participle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present participle. 20. What is the infinitive in the following sentence:The guests to the party were beginning to arrive. A) To the. B) Party were. C) To arrive. D) Guests to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To arrive. 21. Which of these words is a present participle? A) Speaks. B) Speak. C) Spoke. D) Speaking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaking. 22. The side of the house was covered with a ..... vine. A) Climbed. B) Climb. C) Climbing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climbing. 23. Identify the VERBAL in the given sentence:Flying kites has been our favorite summertime hobby. A) Has been. B) Favorite. C) Flying. D) Summertime. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flying. 24. True or False:A participle can only be in the present tense. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. What is the Past Participle of eat?We would have ..... the last 2 pieces of cake, but it was not there anymore. A) Eated. B) Ate. C) Eaten. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eaten. 26. After ..... dinner, I watches television. A) Eat. B) Eating. C) Ate. D) Eaten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eating. 27. Defying gravity, the magician surprised the audience by levitating above the ground. A) Defying. B) Surprised. C) Levitating. D) Defying, levitating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Defying. 28. Complete the sentence:My phone, ..... last year, is already starting to feel old. A) Buys. B) Bought. C) Buying. D) Buy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bought. 29. He was sitting in an armchair ..... a magazine. A) Reading. B) Having read. C) Read. D) To read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reading. 30. It had been months since everyone had ..... an essay in Ms. Dominguez's class. A) Wrote. B) Written. C) Writed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Written. 31. What is the Past Participle of be?It had ..... a few weeks since Ms. Dominguez saw some of her students. A) Been. B) Being. C) Were. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Been. 32. You will annoy people, ..... like that. A) Having talked. B) Talked. C) Talking. D) Having talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talking. 33. What is the infinitive in the following sentence:Ms. Coleman wants to sleep. A) Wants sleep. B) Ms. Coleman. C) Wants to. D) To sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To sleep. 34. The mother barely caught her crawling baby before he went into the street. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 35. ..... is the past participle of run. A) Ranning. B) Ran. C) Run. D) Running. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Run. 36. The students playing in the jazz band were talented. Identify the participial phrase. A) Playing in the jazz band. B) Were talented. C) Students playing. D) Jazz band. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Playing in the jazz band. 37. True or False:A comma is needed after an introductory participial phrase, like in the sentence: "Waving to his friends, Liam boarded the bus." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. Who is described as "playing on the court" ?The boys playing on the basketball court are competitive. A) The boys. B) Competitive. C) Court. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The boys. 39. The firemen are clearing the ruins of the ..... building. A) Burnnt. B) Burnt. C) Burnning. D) Burning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burnt. 40. Complete the sentence with the participial phrase that best shows the first action was completed before the second: ..... all the side quests, I was ready to face the final boss. A) Completed. B) Having completed. C) Completing. D) To complete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having completed. 41. True or False:Participles can only be used in past tense. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 42. Which sentence has a misplaced modifier that creates a confusing or funny image? A) The boy threw the ball wearing a red hat. B) Wearing a red hat, the boy threw the ball. C) The boy wearing a red hat threw the ball. D) The boy in the red hat threw the ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The boy threw the ball wearing a red hat. 43. What is the participle in the following sentence:Homesteaders needed fenced land to farm. A) Needed. B) Land. C) To farm. D) Fenced. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fenced. 44. Roger is ..... his motorbike at the workshop. A) To fix. B) Fix. C) Fixing. D) Fixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixing. 45. The present participle of sleep is A) Sleeping. B) Slept. C) Sleeps. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleeping. 46. Which of the following sentences contains a present participle? A) The water was cold. B) The water ran cold. C) The water is cold. D) The running water was cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The running water was cold. 47. Which of the following is a participle in this sentence:'The running water was cold.'? A) Running. B) Was. C) Water. D) Cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Running. 48. A past participle is a form of a ..... A) Verb. B) Adjective. C) Noun. D) Pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verb. 49. Identify the participle in the sentence:The bent rake was difficult to use. A) Rake. B) Bent. C) No participle. D) Difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bent. 50. The sentence 'The boy, having finished his homework, went outside to play' contains a participle phrase. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. What's the Past Participle of watch? A) Watch. B) Watchen. C) Watched. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watched. 52. Identify the participle in the following sentence:The laughing child got hiccups. A) Child. B) Hiccups. C) Laughing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laughing. 53. Choose the sentence with the correct use of a participle: A) Ate too much chocolate, I felt sick. B) Eats too much chocolate, I felt sick. C) Eated too much chocolate, I felt sick. D) Eating too much chocolate, I felt sick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eating too much chocolate, I felt sick. 54. The past participle in the sentence "I traveled to my aunt's house" is. A) Aunt's. B) Traveled. C) House. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traveled. 55. What is described as "Signed by Thomas Jefferson" in the following sentence:A letter signed by Thomas Jefferson was found among the papers. A) A letter. B) The papers. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A letter. 56. Identify the PAST PARTICIPLE AS ADJECTIVE in this sentence:El pollo cocido tiene mucha grasa. A) Pollo. B) Cocido. C) Mucha. D) Grasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cocido. 57. Identify the participial phrase.Max ran toward the cake falling off the table. A) Ran toward the cake. B) Falling off the table. C) Falling off. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling off the table. 58. In which sentence is the word 'running' used as a participle (an adjective), not as part of a verb or as a noun? A) Running is my favorite form of exercise. B) She will be running for class president. C) The running water from the faucet was cold. D) He is running in the marathon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The running water from the faucet was cold. 59. The child refused to play with the ..... racquet. A) Breaking. B) Broken. C) Breaks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Broken. 60. Complete the sentence with the correct participle:'The ..... documents were scattered on the table.' A) Print. B) Prints. C) Printed. D) Printing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Printed. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesVerbs QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesParticiples Quiz 1Participles Quiz 2Participles Quiz 3Participles Quiz 4Participles Quiz 6Participles Quiz 7Participles Quiz 8Participles Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books