This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Adjective Phrases – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Adjective Phrases Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the case and number of the following noun-adjective phrase:ager gravis. A) Accusative singular. B) Ablative singular. C) Nominative singular. D) Genitive plural. E) Nominative plural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nominative singular. 2. How is an adjective phrase different from an adverb phrase? A) An adjective phrase contains a pronoun; an adverb phrase does not. B) An adjective phrase modifies a noun; an adverb phrase modifies a verb. C) An adjective phrase modifies an adjective; an adverb phrase modifies an adverb. D) An adjective phrase describes an action; an adverb phrase describes a person, place or thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An adjective phrase modifies a noun; an adverb phrase modifies a verb. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. What question does the phrase answer? The view from Keto's living room is breathtaking. A) Which one. B) How. C) What kind. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Which one. 6. How many types of participles are there? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 7. 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. 8. Pedro Almodovar, ..... films I enjoy, is a well-known Spanish director. A) Whose. B) Which. C) Whom. D) Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whose. 9. 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. 10. 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) Was. C) Very. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very. 11. Which word is non-gradable? A) Good. B) Big. C) Handsome. D) Atomic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atomic. 12. 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,. 13. What question does the phrase answer? Grab the rope with both hands A) Which one. B) Whose. C) How. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How. 14. Which word heads the adjective phrase in the sentence, "I love the taste of a sweet juicy peach." ? A) Sweet. B) Taste. C) Juicy. D) Peach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juicy. 15. 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. 16. Identify the adjective phrase.San Juan Capistrano, which is near Los Angeles, is one of California's historic missions. A) Which is near Los Angeles. B) Is one of the California's historic missions. C) Which is near. D) San Juan Capistrano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Which is near Los Angeles. 17. What verb does the underlined Adverb Phrase modify? She works at a television station. A) At. B) She. C) Works. D) Television. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Works. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. "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. 21. 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. 22. Identify the adjective phrase in the sentence below.The pretty picture of my dog is right here. A) Picture of my dog. B) Of my dog. C) Is right here. D) The pretty Picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of my dog. 23. Identify the prepositional phrase that is acting as an adjective.Their role in the community's history was important. A) Was important. B) Their role. C) History was. D) In the community's history. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the community's history. 24. 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. 25. 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. 26. 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. 27. 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. 28. 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) But. B) Nothing. C) Long. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Of. 29. 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) In the group. D) Dean thinks he is smarter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the group. 30. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:During our last visit, there was a violent hurricane. A) Our last visit. B) During our last visit. C) A violent hurricane. D) There was. 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