This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of phrase is the underlined phrase? She got annoyed because her worst nemesis passed by. A) Noun Phrase. B) Verb. C) Noun. D) Verb Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun Phrase. 2. ..... fast food. A) Eat. B) Work. C) Cook. D) Do. E) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eat. 3. Which sentence has a linking verb only? A) He could have run from the other students. B) Today was a cloudy and dreary day. C) We ran to the park and back. D) The team practices every day in the morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Today was a cloudy and dreary day. 4. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentences.Soon after arriving, the students are always sorted into separate houses at the school. A) Are always sorted. B) The students. C) Separate houses. D) Are sorted. E) Soon after arriving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are sorted. 5. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? Too much rain can cause floods and erosion. A) Flood and erosion. B) Cause floods. C) Can cause. D) Rain cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can cause. 6. You are doing a fabulous job! A) Doing. B) Fabulous job. C) Are doing. D) You. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are doing. 7. What is the action verb in the sentence? My mother carried the bowl. A) Bowl. B) Mother. C) My. D) Carried. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carried. 8. What type of verb is the word in red? Susan looked for her new pencil. A) Action verb. B) Helping verb. C) Linking verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Action verb. 9. My head ..... throbbing A) Was. B) Is. C) Will be. D) Might be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 10. Harry does learn some serious life lessons. A) Harry does learn. B) Harry. C) Harry does. D) Does learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Does learn. 11. Meanwhile, a tropical depression was located 550 km west of Basco, Batanes. What VERB phrase is used in the sentence? A) Basco, Batanes. B) A ropical depression. C) Meanwhile. D) Was located. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was located. 12. What is the linking verb in the sentence below? After they announced the end of the sale, the crowd turned angry. A) Turned. B) After. C) Announced. D) End. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turned. 13. Identify the verb or verb phrase:After the game, it will be dark. A) Will be dark. B) After the game. C) Will be. D) Dark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be. 14. The students are sorted into separate houses at the school. A) At the school. B) Separate houses. C) The students. D) Are sorted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are sorted. 15. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:The cinnamon rolls taste heavenly. A) Heavenly. B) Rolls. C) Taste. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taste. 16. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence.A full-grown cacao tree can be grown to 25 feet tall. A) Be grown. B) Can be. C) Can be grown. D) Full-grown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can be grown. 17. What is the verb phrase in the sentence below? Shouldn't we have fixed that right now? A) Have fixed. B) Should have fixed. C) Shouldn't we have fixed. D) Shouldn't have fixed. E) Shouldn't have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should have fixed. 18. Identify the verb or verb phrase:John was reading the book. A) Was. B) Reading. C) The book. D) Was reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was reading. 19. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are eventually placed into Gryffindor. A) Are eventually placed. B) Harry, Ron, and Hermione. C) Into Gryffindor. D) Are placed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are placed. 20. Identify the verb:On Saturday, the boy rehearsed for the big game. A) Rehearsed. B) Big game. C) The boy. D) On Saturday. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rehearsed. 21. Which word(s) form the verb in the sentence? Steve was working hard on the project. A) Hard. B) Was working hard. C) Was working. D) Steve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was working. 22. Find the verb phrase:Anthony's hat was blown off yesterday morning. A) Was. B) Blown off yesterday. C) Was blown. D) Anthony's hat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was blown. 23. During the novels, Harry is learning things about magic and his past. A) Past. B) Magic. C) During. D) Is learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is learning. 24. The main verb in the following sentence is TAKING. What kind of verb is it? The class is taking a quiz. A) Helping. B) Being. C) Linking. D) Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Action. 25. Select the verb phrase for the following sentence:"Have you been sitting in my chair? " A) Have you been sitting. B) In my chair. C) Have been sitting. D) Been sitting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have been sitting. 26. What is(are) the helping verb(s)? I do believe you are pretending to be sick, and I will not allow you to leave. A) Do | will. B) Do | will | are. C) To be | to leave. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do | will | are. 27. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? You are becoming a master at verbs! A) Becoming. B) Verbs. C) Master. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are. 28. What is the verb? I dreamed of a giant ice-cream cone. A) Dreamed. B) Ice-cream. C) Cone. D) Giant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dreamed. 29. What is(are) the helping verb(s)? If you are hungry, you should try to eat something. A) Are | should try. B) Should. C) Are. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should. 30. Choose the correct label to identify the underlined part of the sentence.Potatoes have some acid in them, as well. A) Verb phrase. B) Neither. C) Helping verb. D) Main verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neither. 31. In a forest clearing, a dark, mysterious jaguar sauntered by the water. What NOUN phrase is used in the sentence? A) Dark, mysterious. B) A dark, mysterious jaguar. C) Dark, mysterious jaguar. D) In a forest clearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dark, mysterious jaguar. 32. Choose the correct label to identify the underlined part of the sentence. A potato can become a battery, too. A) Neither. B) Main verb. C) Verb phrase. D) Helping verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helping verb. 33. Was my dog sleeping on the couch? A) Sleeping on. B) Sleeping. C) Was sleeping. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was sleeping. 34. Finish the Helping Verb Song lyric:Helping verbs, helping verbs, there are ..... A) 53. B) No such thing. C) 23. D) La da da da deeee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 23. 35. Which word is the helping verb? He has gone to the beach before. A) Has. B) He. C) Gone. D) To. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has. 36. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? The weather can become very dry during this time. A) Become dry. B) Can become during. C) Can become dry. D) Can become. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can become. 37. Select the verb phrase from the following sentence:"Could you see what he wrote on the board? " A) Wrote on the board. B) Wrote on. C) Could see. D) Could you see. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Could see. 38. What is the simple subject of the following sentence? Master craftsmen would teach young boys certain skills. A) Would teach young boys certain skills. B) Master craftsman. C) Craftsman. D) Would teach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Craftsman. 39. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:The audience was silent when the conductor walked on stage. A) Was. B) Walked. C) The. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 40. The Dursleys should have been nicer to Harry. A) Should have. B) Should. C) Should have been. D) Been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should have been. 41. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Snape could be lurking around here somewhere. A) Lurking around. B) Could be lurking. C) Be lurking. D) Could be. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Could be lurking. 42. The man will dig a deep hole for the new swimming pool. A) Man. B) Deep hole. C) Swimming pool. D) Will dig. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Will dig. 43. Choose the correct label to identify the underlined part of the sentence. You can find properties of science in a basic clock. A) Main verb. B) Helping verb. C) Neither. D) Verb phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb phrase. 44. Which is the main verb? We will be walking to the middle school next year. A) Be. B) Walking. C) We. D) Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walking. 45. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase. It can grow only in warm climates. A) Warm. B) Grow. C) Can. D) Climates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grow. 46. What type of verb is the word in red? The class cheered during the game. A) Action verb. B) Helping verb. C) Linking verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Action verb. 47. James had to run in order to catch his bus. A) Had to run. B) Catch. C) James. D) Had run. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had to run. 48. What is the main verb? We will have finished our time here at OPS. A) Will. B) Finished. C) Have. D) We. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Finished. 49. Lightning ..... overhead for the last ten minutes. A) Flashes. B) Has flashed. C) Will have flashed. D) Had flashed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has flashed. 50. Find the verb phrase:The hamster was named Shasta. A) Was. B) Named. C) Was named. D) Shasta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was named. 51. What tense is the helping verb? The class is taking a quiz. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present. 52. The dispenser has run out of napkins. A) Out. B) Naplins. C) Has run. D) Dispenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has run. 53. Wilma had weighed only 4 pounds at birth. What is the helping verb? A) Weighed. B) At. C) Birth. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Had. 54. What type of verb is underlined? We may use a snack pass. A) Helping Verb. B) Action Verb. C) Linking Verb. D) Verb Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helping Verb. 55. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Each house had had their own ghost. A) Had had. B) Had their own. C) Own. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had had. 56. Find the verb phrase in the following sentences. J.K. Rowling has written one of the most amazing series of novels to date. A) Rowling. B) To date. C) Has written. D) Most amazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has written. 57. What is(are) the helping verb(s)? I have two dollars, and I am going to spend them on coffee. A) Have | am. B) Have. C) Am. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Am. 58. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following:Can Aiden truly build a functional fort in his backyard? A) Can Aiden truly build. B) Build. C) Can. D) Can build. E) Can Aiden build. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can build. 59. Sometimes Hagrid can't help himself. A) Can't help himself. B) Can help. C) Sometimes. D) Can't help. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can help. 60. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence.The ancestors of people in Mexico have been credited with the discovery of chocolate. A) Have been credited. B) Of people. C) The ancestors. D) Discovery of chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have been credited. ← 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