This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the verb. She wonders when it will snow again. A) When. B) Wonders. C) Again. D) Snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wonders. 2. Directions:Determine whether the underlined word(s) is the helping verb(s), main verb, or verb phrase.Cole was sending an email to his parents. A) Helping verb. B) Main verb. C) Verb phrase. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb phrase. 3. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:Tom seemed nervous when the teacher found the note. A) Note. B) Tom. C) Seemed. D) When. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seemed. 4. What tense is the verb? past, present, or futureThe flowers are beautiful. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present. 5. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentences.J.K. Rowling might have unknowingly written one of the most amazing series of novels to date. A) Might have unknowingly written. B) Might have written. C) To date. D) Might. E) Might have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Might have written. 6. What is the linking verb in the sentence below? Seconds later, two faces appeared on the screen. A) Appeared. B) Seconds later. C) Screen. D) On. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeared. 7. Senator Trillanes will be arrested because of his alleged failure to comply with the requirements on his amnesty grant. What kind of phrase is the underlined group of words? A) Adverb phrase. B) Noun Phrase. C) Adjective phrase. D) Verb phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb phrase. 8. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? The television show will be on at 8 pm. A) Show. B) Will. C) Be. D) On. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will. 9. Identify the verb or verb phrase:Aunt Grace has only recently learned to cook! A) Learned to cook. B) Has only recently learned. C) Has learned. D) To cook. E) Has only learned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has learned. 10. What tense is the verb? John sat at the park all day. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past. 11. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:I am putty in his hands. A) Am. B) Putty. C) His. D) Hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Am. 12. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? You have woken up everyone in the neighborhood. A) Neighbourhood. B) You. C) Have. D) Woken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have. 13. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following clause. Has Piper chosen a poem exhibiting meaningful insights to the human condition? A) Has chosen. B) Has Piper chosen. C) Exhibiting. D) Has. E) Chosen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has chosen. 14. What is the verb phrase for the following sentence? The angry chef slammed pots and pans. A) The angry chef. B) Slammed pots and pans. C) Chef. D) Slammed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slammed. 15. The horses have been saddled for today's ride. A) Have been saddled. B) Ride. C) Horses. D) Today's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have been saddled. 16. A word that controls and usually precedes a noun/pronoun and relates it to another word in the sentence. Ex. "On" in "The man ON the platform" A) Direct object. B) Predicate. C) Preposition. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preposition. 17. Find the verb phrase:The men will dig a deep hole for the new swimming pool. A) Swimming pool. B) Dig. C) Swimming. D) Will dig. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Will dig. 18. Select the verb phrase from the following sentence:"The boy is using the hand vacuum for the spilled smoothie." A) Is using. B) For the spilled smoothie. C) Is using the hand vacuum. D) The boy is using. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is using. 19. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Does Harry learn some serious life lessons> A) Does. B) Does Harry. C) Does Harry learn. D) Does learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Does learn. 20. Jamal does not watch those kinds of TV shows. A) Not watch. B) Does watch. C) Does not. D) Does not watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does watch. 21. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence: "Many people are earning their livings at unusual jobs." A) Are earning. B) Their livings. C) Unusual jobs. D) Earning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are earning. 22. It is a phrase or a group of words that grammatically functions as a verb. A) Verb. B) Verb Phrase. C) Noun. D) Noun Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb Phrase. 23. What kind of phrase is the underlined phrase? You must not drive over the speed limit. A) Noun. B) Verb Phrase. C) Noun Phrase. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb Phrase. 24. Identify all of the words in complete predicate:Bella and her friend were reading a really good book together. A) Bella and her friend. B) Were reading. C) Were reading a really good book together. D) A really good book together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were reading a really good book together. 25. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase.Cacao trees are not usually planted in shady areas. A) Are. B) Usually. C) Not. D) Planted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planted. 26. Anthony's hat was blown off yesterday morning. A) Was blown off. B) Was. C) Was blown. D) Anthony's hat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was blown off. 27. The mouse was named Shasta. A) Blue. B) Was named. C) Shasta. D) Mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was named. 28. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? "I will be going to the park this afternoon." A) Going. B) Will be. C) Will be going. D) To the park. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be going. 29. Identify the verb or verb phrase:Aunt Grace has learned to cook! A) Learned to cook. B) To cook. C) Has learned. D) Learned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has learned. 30. Read each sentence. Chose the sentence that has the verb phrase underlined. A) Basketball was invented in 1891. B) I have seen that portrait before. C) I am talking on my cellphone. D) Will Ellie perform a solo at the recital?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I have seen that portrait before. 31. Harry and his friends attend a school, Hogwarts. A) Harry. B) School. C) His friends. D) Attend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attend. 32. Bill was reluctantly competing in the contest. A) Was reluctantly. B) Was competing. C) Reluctantly competing in. D) Reluctantly competing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was competing. 33. What is the complete subject of the following sentence? The angry chef slammed pots and pans. A) The angry chef. B) Slammed pots and pans. C) Chef. D) Slammed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The angry chef. 34. Anthony's hat was blown off of his head by a strong wind. A) Off of his head. B) Hat. C) Was blown. D) Strong wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was blown. 35. Identify the helping verbs in the following sentence:The dancers should have practiced their routine before the performance. A) Should and have. B) Dancers and their. C) Before and the. D) Have and practiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Should and have. 36. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:All the kittens were playful. A) All. B) Kittens. C) Were. D) Playful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were. 37. What type of verbs are highlighted? My husband, Jeremy, is a race car driver, but he is also a great father. A) Both linking verbs. B) Both helping verbs. C) Linking verb and helping verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both linking verbs. 38. Find the helping verb in the verb phrase. Harry and his friends will attend a school, Hogwarts. A) Will. B) Harry. C) A. D) Attend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will. 39. Olga should always walk with caution when she is with her dogs. A) Should always. B) Always walk with. C) Should always walk. D) Should walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Should walk. 40. Which is the main verb? Sam will be moving in the summer. A) Will. B) Be. C) Moving. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving. 41. What type of verb is underlined? He is eating a refrigerator. A) Verb Phrase. B) Helping Verb. C) Linking Verb. D) Action Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helping Verb. 42. In the following sentence, "been" is what type of verb? Nathan had been a doctor for twenty-five years. A) Helping. B) Action. C) Linking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linking. 43. What are the helping verbs in the sentence? I think I will buy the red car, or I will lease the blue one. A) Will, will. B) Will buy, will lease. C) Buy, lease. D) Red, blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will, will. 44. What is the helping verb in the sentence below? Did you see their faces? A) Did. B) You. C) Faces. D) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did. 45. Identify the verb or verb phrase:Will Tom get a pony for Christmas? A) Will get. B) Pony. C) Will. D) Get. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will get. 46. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? The leaves had fallen from the trees. A) Had. B) Fallen. C) From. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 47. Susie is definitely wishing for a puppy this Christmas. A) Wishing. B) Is definitely wishing. C) Is wishing. D) Definitely wishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is wishing. 48. Read the sentence and Identify the verb phrase.How could I have been so mistaken? A) Could have been. B) Have been. C) How could I. D) I have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Could have been. 49. Statement A:Dengue epidemic's number of cases has risen to nearly 250, 000 nationwide. Statement B:The DOH recommends insecticide fogging in areas where a rise in the number of cases has been recorded for two consecutive weeks. A) Both underlined phrases are NOUN phrases. B) Both underlined phrases are VERB phrases. C) Statement A contains NOUN phrase; Statement B contains VERB phrase. D) Statement A contains VERB phrase; Statement B contains NOUN phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both underlined phrases are VERB phrases. 50. Identify the verb or verb phrase:We were there last night. A) Were. B) There. C) Last night. D) Were there. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 51. Identify the helping verbs:My mom certainly should have been invited to the ceremony. A) Should, have, been. B) Have, been. C) Certainly, should, have. D) Should, have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Should, have, been. 52. Which option ISN'T a verb phrase in the sentence: "It may seem strange, but these people have decided that ordinary jobs can become too tedious for them." A) Have decided. B) Seem strange. C) Can become. D) May seem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seem strange. 53. What is the VERB in this sentence:Mrs. Siberski and Ms. Blacknall are my favorite teachers. A) Trampoline. B) Are. C) Students. D) The students. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are. 54. What type of verb is underlined? That seems fair. A) Verb Phrase. B) Linking Verb. C) Helping Verb. D) Action Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linking Verb. 55. What is the main verb? We will have finished our time here at DCS. A) Finished. B) We. C) Have. D) Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finished. 56. In which sentence are the words in bold the complete verb phrase? A) I like riding bikes with friends. B) Kai has finished baking some cookies. C) You must try the new restaurant soon. D) Do you enjoy being outside?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) You must try the new restaurant soon. 57. Read the sentence and Identify the verb phrasePhil should never have repeated that remark. A) Phil should never. B) Should never have. C) Have repeated. D) Should have repeated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Should have repeated. 58. Find the verb phrase in the following sentences. The students are sorted into separate houses at the school. A) At the school. B) The students. C) Separate houses. D) Are sorted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are sorted. 59. Verb phrases should be taught every year! A) Every year. B) Should be. C) Should be taught. D) Should be taught every. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should be taught. 60. Harry and his friends have saved Hogwarts numerous times. A) Have saved. B) Have. C) Saved. D) Harry and his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have saved. ← 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