This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Prepositional Phrases – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prepositional Phrases Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rachel collected many apples from the farm. A) Many apples. B) The farm. C) Rachel collected. D) From the farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the farm. 2. What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence?Women were not allowed into medical school. A) Were not allowed. B) Into medical school. C) Not allowed into. D) Women were not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Into medical school. 3. Choose the prepositional phrases expressing the reference function. A) With regard to. B) In spite of. C) Because of. D) On account of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With regard to. 4. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence?There was a guard with a dart gun hiding behind a door. A) 2. B) 0. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 5. Identify the prepositional phrase:'Elizabeth Blackwell stepped onto the train.' A) Onto the train. B) The train. C) Elizabeth Blackwell. D) Stepped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onto the train. 6. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:The parents' group gathered to discuss how sports may be placing unnecessary pressure on kid. A) To discus. B) The parents' group gathered. C) How sport. D) On kids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On kids. 7. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?My great aunt from Ohio is 84 A) Great aunt. B) My great. C) Is 84. D) From Ohio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From Ohio. 8. In the sentence 'The keys are in the drawer, ' what is the preposition? A) Are. B) In. C) Drawer. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 9. Which one of these words in the following sentence is the object of the preposition?Then they led the pony into the barn and gave it some fresh hay and water. A) Into. B) Barn. C) And. D) Hay and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barn. 10. What part of speech is the word 'under' in the sentence 'The cat is hiding under the bed'? A) Noun. B) Preposition. C) Verb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Preposition. 11. Does this include an infinitive or preposition?-To go to the store, I need to have my list. A) Infinitive. B) Preposition. C) This sentence has an one example of both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infinitive. 12. Standing opposite the rock throwers are a bad idea. A) Change are to is. B) Change standing to stand. C) Change opposite to opposites. D) Make no change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change are to is. 13. I just don't approve ..... your cheating on the exam. A) On. B) At. C) In. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Of. 14. Prepositional phrase: "I speak loudly by mistake" . A) I speak. B) Loudly by. C) By mistake. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By mistake. 15. What is the object of the preposition? A) The object of the preposition is the subject of the sentence that the preposition modifies. B) The object of the preposition is an adjective that describes the noun. C) The object of the preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition in a prepositional phrase. D) The object of the preposition is always a verb that describes the action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The object of the preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition in a prepositional phrase. 16. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:'We traveled by train to the city.' A) We traveled. B) By train. C) To the city. D) By train to. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By train to. 17. Choose the correct preposition: ..... the end of the day A) To. B) At. C) By. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At. 18. Our dog limped home covered WITH MUD AND BURRS. A) Prepositional. B) Appositive. C) Participial. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prepositional. 19. Select the prepositional phrase.There is a waterfall down the river. A) There is a waterfall. B) Down the river. C) Waterfall down the river. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down the river. 20. What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence? The ticket holders waited patiently outside the theater. A) Outside the theater. B) The ticket holders. C) Waited patiently. D) No prepositional phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outside the theater. 21. The city of Chicago is ..... the western shore of Lake Michigan A) To. B) On. C) In. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On. 22. Select the prepositional phrase.Without brown sugar, the recipe isn't complete. A) Brown sugar. B) Without brown sugar. C) The recipe isn't complete. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without brown sugar. 23. The little dog barked throughout the night. A) Throughout. B) Throughout the night. C) Little dog barked. D) Barked throughout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Throughout the night. 24. Select the preposition. After the movie the teenagers went to McDonalds because they were hungry. A) To. B) Were. C) Because. D) Movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 25. ..... his adventurous feelings often returned. A) As the years. B) Through the years. C) In the years. D) Though the years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through the years. 26. Spies for our government ..... A) Was arrested in Russia. B) Were arrested in Russia. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were arrested in Russia. 27. I always get hungry an hour before dinner. A) Always get hungry. B) An hour. C) Before dinner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before dinner. 28. Many composers are indebted to him. A) Many composers. B) Are indebted. C) To him. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To him. 29. Choose the prepositional phrase:They met during a blizzard. A) They met during. B) A blizzard. C) They met. D) During a blizzard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) During a blizzard. 30. A box of warm coats (was delivered, were delivered) to the shelter. A) Was delivered. B) Were delivered. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was delivered. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPrepositional Phrases Quiz 1Prepositional Phrases Quiz 2Prepositional Phrases Quiz 3Prepositional Phrases Quiz 4Prepositional Phrases Quiz 5Prepositional Phrases Quiz 6Prepositional Phrases Quiz 7Prepositional Phrases Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books