This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Look at the verb in red and tell what type of verb it is:action, helping/main, or linking.The girls screamed because there was a mouse! A) Action. B) Helping/main. C) Linking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Action. 2. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase.The Aztecs did settle on the islands of Lake Texcoco. A) Settle. B) Of. C) Did settle. D) Did. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Settle. 3. ..... economics, for an exam. A) Take. B) Do. C) Study. D) Have. E) Live. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study. 4. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase.In the wild, a full-grown cacao tree can be 25 feet tall. A) Can. B) Full-grown. C) Wild. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Be. 5. Identify the status of the main verb in the sentences.Congress had made problems for the president since the election. A) Past conditional. B) Past progressive. C) Past perfective. D) Present perfective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past perfective. 6. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Harry and his friends attend a school, Hogwarts. A) Attend. B) Harry. C) School. D) His friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attend. 7. What is the action verb in the following sentence? "The teachers take points off for late assignments." A) Points. B) Off for. C) Take. D) Teachers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take. 8. Harry is always getting in trouble with the Dursleys. A) Is getting. B) Is. C) Is always getting. D) Getting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is getting. 9. Find the verb phrase in the following sentence. A) Live. B) Will live. C) Painters will live. D) In the place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will live. 10. A word that adds description to a verb or adjective. Ex. "never" in "I never said that" OR "beautifully" in "It was beautifully simple." A) Preposition. B) Adverb. C) Predicate. D) Helping verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 11. Identify the verb phrases in the sentence: "You may have seen them when they were wearing costumes such as gorilla suits." A) Have seen, were wearing. B) May have seen, were wearing. C) Seen them, wearing costumes. D) May have seen, such as. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May have seen, were wearing. 12. Identify the verb or verb phrase:He wants a bike for Christmas. A) For Christmas. B) A bike. C) He wants. D) Wants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wants. 13. Identify the verb or verb phrase:The student might pass his exam today. A) Pass. B) Might pass. C) Might. D) Today. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Might pass. 14. What is the PAST PARTICIPLE form of HAVE? A) HAVED. B) HAVING. C) HAD. D) HAS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HAD. 15. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence: "Other people have been finding work as mimes." A) Been finding. B) Have been finding. C) Have been finding work. D) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have been finding. 16. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentences.Harry is almost always helped by teachers and his friends, Ron and Hermione. A) Is helped. B) Friends. C) Almost always helped. D) Is almost always helped. E) By teachers and his friends, Ron and Hermione. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is helped. 17. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Hermione may be seen as one of many influential female characters in literature. A) May be seen as one. B) May be. C) May. D) May be seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) May be seen. 18. How many HELPING verbs are there in the following sentence? I should have been listening better at the concert. A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 19. Which word(s) form the verb phrase in the sentence? Mike will be singing tomorrow night. A) Will be. B) Will be singing. C) Will. D) Mike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will be singing. 20. The following is what type of sentence? "Clean your room and then do your homework." A) Interrogative. B) Imperative. C) Exclamatory. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 21. The football players from the other team were not playing very well. A) Not playing well. B) Were not playing well. C) Were playing. D) Playing well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were playing. 22. Erin is feeding some water to the guinea pigs. A) Erin. B) Water. C) Feeding. D) Is feeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is feeding. 23. The pizza smells delicious. A) Smells delicious. B) Was. C) Smells. D) Pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smells. 24. Linking verbs LINK the subject to a word that describes it.What is the linking verb in this sentence? Kevin is a fireman in New York City. A) Kevin. B) There is no linking verb in this sentence. C) Bellevue. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is. 25. Fifty million gallons of waste are ..... into the river every day. A) Thrown. B) Threw. C) Throwing. D) Throw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thrown. 26. Find the main verb in the verb phrase. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted into Gryffindor. A) Gryffindor. B) Harry, Ron, and Hermione. C) Are. D) Sorted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sorted. 27. Which of the following is an action verb? A) Is. B) Being. C) Am. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have. 28. Identify the simple predicate:Arelhan will be caring for chickens this spring. A) Will be. B) Will be caring for chickens this spring. C) Will be caring. D) Arelhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be caring. 29. Identify the verb phrase:Are the babies crying again? A) Are crying. B) Are. C) Again. D) Crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are crying. 30. Read the sentence and Identify the verb phrase.Ms. Wilkins does not always announces tests. A) Does not always. B) Does announce. C) Always announces. D) Ms. Wilkins does. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does announce. 31. In the following sentence, what is the complete verb phrase? Should I be studying for next week's quiz? A) Should be. B) Should be studying. C) Be studying. D) Should I be studying. E) Should I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should be studying. 32. Identify the verb phrase:You should have gone to the concert! A) Should have gone. B) Should. C) Should have. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should have. 33. What is the main verb in the following sentence? I am practising the song for the concert. A) Song. B) Practising. C) Concert. D) Am. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Practising. 34. Find the verb phrase:These jeans do not fit me anymore. A) Do not. B) Do not fit. C) Do fit. D) Do not fit me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do fit. 35. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? The Dementors had caused the loss. A) Caused. B) Had caused. C) The lossthe loss. D) Hadstill might win. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Had caused. 36. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentences.Hermione may one day be seen as one of many influential female characters in Literature. A) May. B) May be. C) May be seen. D) May one day be seen. E) May be seen as one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) May be seen. 37. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following:Will Colton keep the amusing boa constrictor as a pet? A) Will keep. B) Keep. C) Will. D) Will Colton keep. E) Amusing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will keep. 38. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Harry and his friends did not attend a regular school. A) Did not. B) Did attend. C) Did not attend. D) His friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Did attend. 39. What is/are the helping verb(s) in this sentence? Who will be running in the race today? A) Running. B) Will be running. C) Will be. D) Be running. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be. 40. What kind of phrase is the underlined phrase? Karina has an excellent grade in English. A) Verb Phrase. B) Noun Phrase. C) Verb. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun Phrase. 41. Which word(s) form the verb in the sentence? Mary will play the flute for ten years. A) Will play. B) Will. C) Will. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will play. 42. Identify the verb or verb phrase:She had written a long term paper. A) Had written a long term paper. B) Had certainly. C) Had certainly written. D) Had written. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had written. 43. People are noticing her skill in basketball. What is the helping verb? A) Her. B) Basketball. C) Skill. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are. 44. The noun or noun phrase the follows a preposition and completes its meaning. Ex. "silence" in "We ate in silence" A) Subject. B) Modifier. C) Predicate nominative. D) Object of a preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Object of a preposition. 45. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Mad Eye Moody was trapped in the bottom for months. A) Was trapped in. B) Was trapped. C) Was. D) In the bottom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was trapped. 46. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following:Ryan had not been walking to the playground. A) Had been walking. B) Had been. C) Been walking. D) Walking. E) Had not been walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had been walking. 47. Even an amateur engineer or artist can appreciate the tremendous efforts that must have gone into the completion of this temple. A) Can appreciate. B) An amateur engineer. C) Must have. D) Completion of this temple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can appreciate. 48. Find the verb phrase in the following sentences. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted into Gryffindor. A) Gryffindor. B) Harry, Ron, and Hermione. C) Into Gryffindor. D) Are sorted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are sorted. 49. What is the main verb in the sentence? I will go to the game next week. A) Will. B) To. C) Go. D) Next. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Go. 50. What tense is the verb? past, present, or futureThe girls are singing Jingle Bells. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present. 51. Drake must not have remembered to bring his homework today. A) Must have remembered. B) Not have remembered. C) Have remembered. D) Have remembered to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Must have remembered. 52. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Filch would have loved if they were out of their beds. A) Have loved. B) Would have. C) Would have loved. D) Lovedloved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Would have loved. 53. Find the verb or verb phrase:For Thanksgiving, I plan to go to New York City. A) Plan. B) For. C) Go to. D) To go. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plan. 54. Identify the verb or verb phrase:He could have come today. A) Could have. B) Could certainly have come. C) Could certainly. D) Could have come. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Could have come. 55. We who run the festival would like to thank the volunteers who helped with the event. What is the noun phrase? A) Helped with the event. B) Volunteers. C) The festival. D) We who run the festival. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We who run the festival. 56. What is the verb phrase in the sentence below? We all learned while we were planning to leave. A) Were planning. B) To leave. C) Learned while. D) We all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were planning. 57. What is the linking verb in the sentence below? She felt exhausted after the race. A) After. B) Exhausted. C) Felt. D) She. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Felt. 58. The whales were watching us. A) Watching us. B) Whales. C) Were. D) Were watching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were watching. 59. ..... to music, the radio. A) Go. B) Like. C) Listen. D) Play. E) Speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Listen. 60. What is the verb or verb phrase in this sentence? The complaining child refused to go to the store for his mother. A) To go. B) To the store. C) For his mother. D) Complaining. E) Refused. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Refused. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesVerb Phrases Quiz 1Verb Phrases Quiz 2Verb Phrases Quiz 3Verb Phrases Quiz 4Verb Phrases Quiz 5Verb Phrases Quiz 6Verb Phrases Quiz 7Verb Phrases Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books