This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Adjective Phrases – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Adjective Phrases Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "The man covered in sweat took a well-deserved break." ? A) Well. B) Man. C) Covered. D) Sweat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Covered. 2. This big sweater should keep me warm in the snow. A) Adjective. B) Adjective Phrase. C) Adjective Clause. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 3. What question does the phrase answer? The view from Keto's living room is breathtaking. A) What kind. B) Where. C) How. D) Which one. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Which one. 4. How many types of participles are there? A) 5. B) 3. C) 4. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 5. Find the Adjective Phrase:"That is my glass of water." A) That is. B) My glass. C) Of water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of water. 6. Pedro Almodovar, ..... films I enjoy, is a well-known Spanish director. A) Whom. B) Who. C) Which. D) Whose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whose. 7. What is the adjective phrase referring to? The day before Memorial Day, Henry visited his grandfather for two hours. A) Day. B) Grandfather. C) Henry. D) Visited. E) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Day. 8. What is the degree word in this sentence: "Anyone but Cinderella would have fixed their hair awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well" . A) She. B) Very. C) Good. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very. 9. Which word is non-gradable? A) Good. B) Big. C) Handsome. D) Atomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atomic. 10. Secretariat, who was at the back of the pack at the start of the race, won the Kentucky Derby easily at the end. A) Being at the back of the pack at the start of the race,. B) Who at the back of the pack at the start of the race,. C) At the back of the pack at the start of the race,. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the back of the pack at the start of the race,. 11. What question does the phrase answer? Grab the rope with both hands A) Where. B) Which one. C) Whose. D) How. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How. 12. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "I love the taste of a sweet juicy peach." ? A) Juicy. B) Sweet. C) Peach. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juicy. 13. Correct or incorrect? Are the independent and the dependent/subordinate clauses written correctly? I have a friend which is a computer programmer. A) Incorrect dependent clause. B) Incorrect independent clause. C) Both clauses are correct. D) Both clauses are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect dependent clause. 14. Identify the adjective phrase.San Juan Capistrano, which is near Los Angeles, is one of California's historic missions. A) Is one of the California's historic missions. B) Which is near. C) Which is near Los Angeles. D) San Juan Capistrano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Which is near Los Angeles. 15. What verb does the underlined Adverb Phrase modify? She works at a television station. A) She. B) Works. C) At. D) Television. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Works. 16. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "This stone is the heaviest of all." ? A) Stone. B) Heaviest. C) Of all. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heaviest. 17. In which sentence does the underlined group of words function as a noun? A) My cat always chases the dog, which is ironic. B) My friends and I like to go for runs together in the neighborhood. C) We are doing a project on Ancient Egypt. D) For this project, you can work with whomever you would like. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) For this project, you can work with whomever you would like. 18. "Extremely handsome" in "The extremely handsome football player earns up to 270.000£ per week" is A) Attributive adjective phrase. B) Predicative adjective phrase. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attributive adjective phrase. 19. What is the prepositional phrase? I like that lovely old pub by the bridge over the river. A) That lovely old pub. B) By the bridge. C) Over the river. D) By the bridge AND over the river. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By the bridge AND over the river. 20. Identify the adjective phrase in the sentence below.The pretty picture of my dog is right here. A) Of my dog. B) Is right here. C) The pretty Picture. D) Picture of my dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of my dog. 21. Identify the prepositional phrase that is acting as an adjective.Their role in the community's history was important. A) In the community's history. B) History was. C) Was important. D) Their role. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the community's history. 22. What is the adjective clause? The small neighborhood lending library books, which are lost, are not really necessary. A) Which are lost. B) The books which are lost. C) Are not really necessary. D) Which are lost are not really necessary. E) The small neighborhood lending library. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Which are lost. 23. Correct or incorrect? Are the independent and the dependent/subordinate clauses written correctly? Abraham Lincoln, whom was the 16th president of the United States, was born in Kentucky. A) Incorrect dependent clause. B) Incorrect independent clause. C) Both clauses are correct. D) Both clauses are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect dependent clause. 24. Uncle Carl is really ..... man. A) An old sweet. B) A sweet old. C) A sweet, old. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sweet old. 25. What is the prepositional phrase? Jack bought the flowers with purple petals. A) Jack bought. B) Bought the flowers. C) With purple petals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With purple petals. 26. What is the preposition in the adjective phrase in is this sentence: "They talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed" . A) Long. B) Of. C) Nothing. D) But. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of. 27. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:Dean thinks he is smarter than the other chickens in the group. A) He is smarter. B) Than the other chickens in the group. C) Dean thinks he is smarter. D) In the group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the group. 28. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:During our last visit, there was a violent hurricane. A) Our last visit. B) There was. C) During our last visit. D) A violent hurricane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) During our last visit. 29. How can you tell if something is functioning as a noun? A) Move it around in the sentence. B) Replace it with the word "that". C) Check if it describes a noun. D) Panic, guess, and hope for the best. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replace it with the word "that". 30. Which question does an ADVERB not answer? A) Whose. B) Where. C) Why. D) When. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whose. 31. They grew up in ..... house in Mexico City. A) A comfortable, little. B) A comfortable little. C) A little, comfortable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A comfortable little. 32. What is the prepositional phrase? There were strange green creatures with bobbing heads. A) There were strange green creatures. B) Strange green creatures. C) With bobbing heads. D) Were strange green creatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With bobbing heads. 33. Identify the function of the underlined word(s) in the sentence:Michelle drove around the broken glass. A) Adverb. B) Object of the preposition. C) Preposition. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preposition. 34. Correct or incorrect? Are the relative pronoun, subject(s) and verb(s) in the dependent/subordinate clauses written correctly? Gardner called the aspects that makes up intelligence "multiple intelligences." A) Incorrect verb. B) Incorrect subject. C) Incorrect relative pronoun. D) All are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect verb. 35. What is the object of the adverb phrase? Throughout the spring, Archimedes spent much time fishing. A) Throughout. B) Spent. C) Archimedes. D) Spring. E) Fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 36. What is the adverbial phrase in the sentence? The boys were nervous in the cave. A) Were nervous. B) The boys. C) In the cave. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were nervous. 37. Identify is the prepositional phrase acting as an adjective.Our class did research about the Oakwood's history. A) Research about the Oakwood's history. B) Did research. C) Our class. D) About the Oakwood's history. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About the Oakwood's history. 38. A " ..... " is a modifier that precedes the head of an adjective phrase determines the meaning of a phrase. A) Premodifier. B) Postmodifier. C) The head. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Premodifier. 39. Nancy likes restaurants that serve spicy food. A) Nancy likes restaurants having serve spicy food. B) Nancy likes restaurants serving spicy food. C) Nancy likes restaurants served spicy food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nancy likes restaurants serving spicy food. 40. Noun modified:A friend in need is a friend indeed. A) Friend. B) Need. C) Indeed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friend. 41. Correct or incorrect? Are the relative pronoun, subject(s) and verb(s) in the dependent/subordinate clauses written correctly? I prefer to study with students who cares about their grades. A) Incorrect verb. B) Incorrect subject. C) Incorrect relative pronoun. D) All are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect verb. 42. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "By the end of the date, I was fairly bored with him." ? A) With him. B) End. C) Bored. D) Fairly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bored. 43. Find the Verb Phrase:"The girls' basketball team did go to the state playoffs." A) Go. B) Did go. C) Did. D) Did go to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Did go. 44. An ADJECTIVE PHRASE can be A PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE.Find the adjective prepositional phrase:A friend in need is a friend indeed. A) A friend. B) Is a friend. C) Friend indeed. D) In need. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In need. 45. What is the adjective phrase referring to? Helga's cousin from New Orleans waited in the living room. A) Helga. B) Cousin. C) New Orleans. D) Room. E) Waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cousin. 46. Identify the function of the underlined word(s) in the sentence:Doug carefully poured the warm milk into the mug. A) Object of the preposition. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Object of the preposition. 47. What word does the underlined adjective phrase modify in the sentence below? The new painting by Kehinde Wiley is inspiring. A) Painting. B) New. C) Inspiring. D) Kehinde Wiley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Painting. 48. Anyone ..... in film history should attend the lecture. A) Interested. B) Is interested. C) Interesting. D) Are interested. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interested. 49. Which of the underlined group of words is functioning as a noun? A) That TV show was canceled three years ago. B) Whichever college you choose is fine as long as it has your major. C) Reading books and watching movies are two of her hobbies. D) Can you pass the salad?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whichever college you choose is fine as long as it has your major. 50. Correct or incorrect? Are the relative pronoun, subject(s) and verb(s) in the dependent/subordinate clauses written correctly? People who sends e-mail usually write letters that are short. A) Incorrect verb. B) Incorrect subject. C) Incorrect relative pronoun. D) All are incorrect. E) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrect verb. 51. Find the adjective phrase:The loud crash of the cymbals was deafening. A) The loud crash. B) Of the cymbals. C) Was deafening. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of the cymbals. 52. Identify the noun that is being modified by the adjective phrase.San Juan Capistrano, which is near Los Angeles, is one of California's historic missions. A) Los Angeles. B) Missions. C) Which. D) San Juan Capistrano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) San Juan Capistrano. 53. Identify the word the underlined phrase modifies and tell if it's an adverb phrase or an adjective phrase.The angry lion quietly walked behind the tall, yellow grass. A) Grass; adjective. B) Quietly; adverb. C) Lion; adjective. D) Walked; adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walked; adverb. 54. Identify the case and number of the following noun-adjective phrase:agricola bonus. A) Accusative singular. B) Genitive plural. C) Nominative singular. D) Ablative singular. E) Dative singular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nominative singular. 55. Find the Verb Phrase:"Matthew had been sleeping in his bed." A) Had. B) Been sleeping in. C) Had been sleeping. D) Been sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had been sleeping. 56. Which is an example of Adjective Prepositional Phrase? A) With the pink fur. B) Black, green and white. C) Has hot and cold. D) The green can. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With the pink fur. 57. How many components do premodifiers have? A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 58. Which sentence has a preposition functioning as an adjective? A) I swam in the ocean last summer. B) The teacher next to me is intelligent. C) Near the walkway is a stray dog. D) The duck in the pond is beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The duck in the pond is beautiful. 59. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "She was proud of her son winning the science fair." ? A) Proud. B) Winning. C) Science. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proud. 60. Which of the following completes the sentence, 'Maggie's friends, ..... are going to be her bridesmaids.'? A) A couple of whom showed up in the party. B) A couple showed up in the party. C) They showed up in the party. D) A couple of them showed up in the party. 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