This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Prepositional Phrases – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prepositional Phrases Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? We are going to go visit the prince for the holidays. A) We are going. B) To go visit. C) For the holidays. D) Visit the prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For the holidays. 2. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? Geese live in flocks while cattle live among herds in pastures. A) 2. B) 3. C) 1. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 3. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? I will place my paper in the basket. A) 2. B) 0. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1. 4. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? On Wednesday, we celebrated my husband's birthday at my mom's house for two hours. A) Two. B) Four. C) Three. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 5. What is the preposition? Over this school year we have learned to work hard. A) To. B) The. C) Have. D) Over. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over. 6. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence below:In the lobby she sat down. A) In the lobby. B) She sat down. C) Rested. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the lobby. 7. Identify the complete prepositional phrase:I ate a hot dog with ketchup and mustard last night. A) With ketchup. B) And mustard. C) With ketchup and mustard. D) Last night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With ketchup and mustard. 8. Choose the correct prepositions to complete the sentence.We are not familiar ..... all the words given ..... the spelling list. A) To, in. B) Off, in. C) Of, to. D) With, in. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With, in. 9. What word in the sentence below is a preposition? The unicorn hopped high above the clouds. A) Clouds. B) Unicorn. C) Hopped. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Above. 10. What is the object of the prepositional phrase and is it adverbial or adjective? The ballerina danced across the floor. A) Ballerina, adjective. B) Ballerina, adverbial. C) Floor, adjective. D) Floor, adverbial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Floor, adverbial. 11. What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence? The butterfly kite is in the tree. A) Butterfly kite is in. B) Is in the tree. C) In the tree. D) The butterfly kite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the tree. 12. What is the object of the preposition in the underlined prepositional phrase? I fell asleep during the long and boring movie. A) Movie. B) Long. C) Boring. D) During. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movie. 13. What is the preposition in the sentence below? We read a book about magic last week. A) Book. B) About. C) Last week. D) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About. 14. What is the preposition in the sentence? I still live in that stucco house in the next block. A) Stucco. B) The. C) In. D) Still. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In. 15. After the game will be too late for us to go to dinner. How many prepositional phrases? Which? Identify. A) 1. After the game(adv). B) 2. After the game(adv), and to dinner(adv). C) 3. After the game(adv), for us(adv), and to dinner(adv). D) 3. After the game(adv), for us(adj), and to dinner(adv). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. After the game(adv), for us(adv), and to dinner(adv). 16. What is the object of the sentence? :Glucose then releases energy throughout our bodies. A) Throughout. B) Bodies. C) Glucose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bodies. 17. What is the object of the preposition in the sentence below? To forgive someone is a divine act according to the priest's homily. A) Someone. B) Homily. C) Act. D) Priest's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homily. 18. Identify the prepositional phrase.We walked up the stairs. A) We. B) We walked. C) Up the stairs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Up the stairs. 19. How many prepositional phrases are in the following sentence? The shortstop threw the baseball across the field to the first baseman, and the inning was over. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 20. The noun or pronoun that follows the preposition is called ..... A) The preposition's best friend. B) The object of the preposition. C) The subject. D) The phrase finisher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The object of the preposition. 21. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? William went home and left his jacket behind the door. A) Behind the door. B) Went home. C) Left his jacket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behind the door. 22. What is the object of the preposition in th A) Under. B) The. C) Stairs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stairs. 23. Adverbial phrase modifies the following EXCEPT A) Adverbs. B) Verbs. C) Adjectives. D) Pronouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pronouns. 24. What do we call a group of words that cannot stand alone? A) Sentence. B) Object. C) Phrase. D) Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phrase. 25. What is the object of the preposition in the following sentence? I am reading a great book by a relatively unknown author. A) Unknown. B) Book. C) Author. D) Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author. 26. When, where, why, how A) Preposition. B) Prepositional Phrase. C) Object of the Preposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preposition. 27. What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence? The summer sun shone brightly in the afternoon. A) Summer sun shone. B) Sun shone. C) Brightly in the afternoon. D) In the afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the afternoon. 28. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentences.The bareback riding at the Calgary Stampede is daring. A) Riding at the Calgary. B) Stampede is daring. C) At the Calgary. D) The bareback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the Calgary. 29. Identify the preposition.My mom took a walk around the block. A) Walk. B) My mom. C) Around. D) Block. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around. 30. Identify the prepositional phrase:Be sure that you know your facts before the quiz. A) You know. B) Be sure. C) Review your facts. D) Before the quiz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before the quiz. 31. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence? We rode our bikes on the road. A) Our bikes along. B) On the road. C) We rode our bikes. D) Rode our bikes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the road. 32. What is the object of the preposition? Please get there after 3 p.m. A) There. B) 3 p.m. C) Please. D) Get. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 p.m. 33. Which of the following types of punctuation CAN'T be used to set off/identify an appositive/appositive phrase? A) Quotation marks. B) Commas. C) Parenthesis. D) Dashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks. 34. What is the object of the underlined preposition? In the middle of the night, a lioness hunted her prey. A) Prey. B) Night. C) Lioness. D) Middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Middle. 35. What is the preposition in the sentence below? He is the tallest among all the pupils in his section. A) The. B) Section. C) Pupils. D) Among. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Among. 36. Find the preposition in this sentence:The boy walked the dog down the busy street. A) Down. B) Street. C) Walked. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Down. 37. What is the object of the preposition in the underlined prepositional phrase? He is going there with his friend. A) Friend. B) With. C) His. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friend. 38. Which of these words in the following sentence are considered as a prepositional phrase? The birthday gift from his parents surprised John. A) Surprised John. B) From his parents. C) The birthday gift. D) From his. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From his parents. 39. What is the object of the prepositional phrase in this sentence? The announcement during class interrupted my work on the math test. A) Math test. B) Class. C) Work. D) Announcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Class. 40. How do you know if a prepositional phrase is an adjective phrase? A) Modifies the subject. B) Modifies the predicate. C) One that modifies a verb. D) Describes or modifies a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Describes or modifies a noun. 41. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? I have been up since midnight. A) Up since midnight. B) I have. C) Since midnight. D) I have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Since midnight. 42. The store is located near the highway. What is the prepositional phrase? A) Near the highway. B) The highway. C) Is located. D) The store. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near the highway. 43. Which word is being modified by the underlined prepositional phrase? Your teeth should be brushed after every meal. A) Brushed. B) Teeth. C) Should. D) Your. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brushed. 44. Choose the preposition that makes the most sense in the following sentence:Luke turned off the computer ..... finishing his homework. A) Under. B) After. C) Around. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After. 45. Where is the prepositional phrase in this sentence? Mary ate an apple between the rehearsals. A) Between the rehearsals. B) The rehearsals. C) An apple between. D) Mary ate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between the rehearsals. 46. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentencesThe most beneficial exercise for the heart is aerobic exercise. A) For the heart. B) Exercise for. C) Is aerobic exercise. D) Most beneficial exercise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For the heart. 47. Indicate the type of prepositional phrase in the sentence below.Joe is the student with the highest grade . A) Adjectival Phrase. B) Adverbial Phrase. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjectival Phrase. 48. Which word is being modified by the underlined adverbial phrase? The ticket holders waited patiently outside the theater. A) Waited. B) Patiently. C) Holder. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waited. 49. Find the preposition in this sentence:The strange man parked his car by the tall trees. A) By. B) Trees. C) Strange. D) Parked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By. 50. Identify the preposition in the sentence:The M & Ms are hidden amongst the Skittles. A) Skittles. B) Amongst. C) Are. D) Hidden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amongst. 51. Which prepositional phrase would complete this sentence correctly? ....., she craved mashed potatoes. A) At dinner time. B) Above the stove. C) Around the corner. D) Inside the dishwasher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At dinner time. 52. What is the adjectival phrase in the following sentence? The voices of the people talking outside the house are very loud.. A) Outside the house. B) Of the people. C) Very loud. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of the people. 53. What is/are the prepositional phrase(s) in the sentence below? To get to the castle, you must go through the woods. A) To get/you must go. B) To the castle/through the woods. C) To the castle/you must go. D) To get/through the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To the castle/through the woods. 54. #4 on the back:What is the purpose of the underlined preposition? "Most animals move to a warmer place each winter, but Emperor penguins do not." A) To describe when animals move. B) To connect warmer with animals. C) To connect two phrases about winter. D) To show a relationship between move and place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To show a relationship between move and place. 55. Choose the one which is the preposition for TIME. A) The key is on the table. B) Do you work on Friday?. C) They are running on the street. D) He sat on the chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do you work on Friday?. 56. What is the prepositional phrase? They met during a talent contest. A) During a talent contest. B) They met during. C) During a talent. D) A talent contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) During a talent contest. 57. What is the object of the prepositional phrase? The woman on the boat is my aunt Carol. A) Woman. B) Boat. C) On. D) Aunt Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boat. 58. Identify the preposition in the following sentence:A monkey crouches in the tree. A) Monkey. B) In. C) Crouches. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 59. What is the object of the preposition in the following sentence? My teacher is always very pleased with my work. A) With. B) Teacher. C) Pleased. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Work. 60. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? Turkeys want to fly below the radar. A) Turkeys want to fly. B) To fly below. C) Below the radar. D) Turkeys want. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Below the radar. ← 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