This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify what the word(s) in red are examples of:The runner was fumbling the ball. A) Not a verb. B) Main verb. C) Verb phrase. D) Helping verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Main verb. 2. Choose the correct answer:shh, can you ..... that? A) Wait. B) Find. C) Hear. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hear. 3. Identify the verbs in the sentences below:Candace ate her dinner. A) Candace. B) Ate. C) Her. D) Dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ate. 4. Have you ever been to a cheese factory? A) Have been. B) You have ever been. C) Have ever been. D) You have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have been. 5. Match the verbs with the verbs with the nouns or noun phrases: ..... housework in the morning / my English homework at night I yoga A) Work. B) Read. C) Play. D) Do. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Do. 6. The verb or verb phrase:Once in the meadow Olive was able to breathe freely and feel relief. A) Freely. B) Able, relief. C) Was, feel. D) Was able. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was, feel. 7. When I first visited Rome, it took my head away. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. 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. 9. You should never throw a boomerang while indoors. The verb in this sentence is: A) Never throw. B) Throw. C) Should throw. D) Should never throw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should throw. 10. Which of the following is an example of a verb phrase? A) Climb. B) Learn. C) Teach. D) Might have jumped. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Might have jumped. 11. What is the verb/verb phrase? Lincoln was our 16th President. A) Was our 16th. B) Was. C) Lincoln. D) Was our. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was. 12. What is the verb phrase in the sentence below?The dog will fetch the ball. A) Will fetch. B) Dog. C) Will. D) Fetch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will fetch. 13. Which-er /-ir verb ending goes with the subject pronoun USTED? A) Es. B) En. C) E. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) E. 14. ..... you go to the bed early during the week? A) Do. B) Did. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do. 15. I will have cleaned everything by the time my friends arrive. A) Past perfect. B) Future perfect. C) Present perfect. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Future perfect. 16. Pick out the verb(s) and verb phrase(s) in the sentence:The spines will break off inside their victim's flesh. A) Will break off. B) Inside. C) Will. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will break off. 17. To feel like doing something A) Tener + que + inf. B) Tener ganas de + inf. C) Tener ganamos de + inf. D) Tener + que + ganas+ inf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tener ganas de + inf. 18. Ud ..... helado en el verano. A) Responde. B) Lee. C) Vende. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vende. 19. What is the verb tense?Each machine does a different task. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present. 20. What is the subject in the sentence "Pens might leak" ? A) Sentence. B) Might. C) Pens. D) Leak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pens. 21. Identify what the word(s) in red are examples of:A player on the other team caught it. A) Helping verb. B) Not a verb. C) Verb phrase. D) Main verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not a verb. 22. What is the verb/verb phrase? Justin and Matt are my best friends. A) Are my best friends. B) Are my. C) Are. D) Matt are. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are. 23. Necesitas ..... las manos antes de comer. A) Lavarte. B) Afeitarte. C) Cepillarte. D) Ducharte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lavarte. 24. They all have worked very hard for this program. A) Worked very hard. B) Have worked. C) All have. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have worked. 25. People have usually misunderstood the boomerang.The verb in this sentence is: A) Have misunderstood. B) Have. C) Have usually misunderstood. D) Usually misunderstood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have misunderstood. 26. As an African American, Owens was not especially welcomed by the Nazis. A) Was welcomed. B) Was not especially. C) Was not welcomed. D) Welcomed by. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was welcomed. 27. On Friday evening I like ..... friends for a drink. A) Downloading. B) Meeting. C) Shopping. D) Going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meeting. 28. I need to ..... my classmates to get ready for our presentation. A) Getting together with. B) Getting into. C) Get into. D) Get together with. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Get together with. 29. However, the Swiss may have produced the first cheese of this type. A) However, the Swiss. B) May have produced. C) Swiss may have. D) Have produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May have produced. 30. ELIGE EL Verb phrases:An apartment would have cost less than a hotel for four of us. A) An. B) Would have cost. C) Apartment. D) Would. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Would have cost. 31. ..... to the cinema A) Go. B) Want. C) Read. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go. 32. Choose the correct helping verb for each sentence.Addison and Logan (is, are) looking at the pictures on the wall. A) Is. B) Are. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are. 33. Identify the verb in the following sentence:Justin is the one with the neck tattoos. A) With. B) One. C) Is. D) Justin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 34. Antonio and I has a dog A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 35. What are the main components of a verb phrase? A) Subject and object. B) Adjective and adverb. C) Noun and pronoun. D) Main verb and auxiliary verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Main verb and auxiliary verbs. 36. You are going to shower. A) Quieres ducharte. B) Necesitas ducharte. C) Vas a ducharte. D) Tienes que ducharte. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vas a ducharte. 37. Choose the correct answer:I like ..... films at night. A) See. B) To see. C) Seeing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seeing. 38. Select all the words that make up the verb and verb phrase in the sentence.The new game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets. A) Played. B) Was played with. C) Was. D) Was played. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was played. 39. Complete with the right option:Can you ..... off the TV, please? A) Turn. B) Turns. C) Turned. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turn. 40. ..... cepillarme los dientes. A) Tengo que. B) Tienes que. C) Tienen que. D) Tenemos que. E) Tiene que. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tengo que. 41. Ana y Carlos ..... pedir ayuda por GVoice la semana pasada. A) Necesitan. B) Tienen que. C) Van a necesitar. D) Necesitaron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Necesitaron. 42. Acabamos de trabajar. A) We just worked. B) They just worked. C) We just visited. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We just worked. 43. Choose the correct answer:Ali can't get in his house now, he ..... for his keys because he lost it. A) Is looking at. B) Is looking for. C) Is looking after. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is looking for. 44. What is the verb/verb phrase? Before the game, Roger was standing in line for an hour. A) Was. B) Was standing. C) Was standing for. D) Roger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was standing. 45. The Weather Bureau had been playing Chicken Little with the coastal residents. A) Past progressive. B) Past perfect progressive. C) Past perfective. D) Past conditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past perfect progressive. 46. Identify the HELPING verb in the sentence below:The children were playing in the yard. A) Were. B) Playing. C) Children. D) Yard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 47. The house appeared to be lining to one side. A) The house. B) Appeared. C) One side. D) To be lining to one side. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeared. 48. ..... washing up A) Do. B) Take out. C) Divide. D) Handle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do. 49. The past simple of the verb BREAK A) Broke. B) Breaked. C) Broken. D) Breaken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broke. 50. They ..... been in town all day A) Were. B) Have. C) Has. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have. 51. Mi abuelo ..... que ir al supermercado ayer. A) Tuve. B) Tuvimos. C) Tiene. D) Tuvo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tuvo. 52. A different kind of boomerang is generally used for each purpose. The verb in this sentence is: A) Generally used. B) Is generally. C) Is generally used. D) Is used. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is used. 53. Determine the verb in the following sentence!The idea of having a pizza sounds real good. A) Having. B) Sounds. C) Real. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sounds. 54. Miranda looked at the snowstorm outside her window.What kind of a verb is "looked" ? A) "looked" is an action verb. B) "looked" is a be/linking verb. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "looked" is an action verb. 55. Identify the verb or verb phrase:Where did you find your keys? A) Find your keys. B) Did find. C) Where did you find. D) Did you find. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Did find. 56. What is the subject of the following sentence? One of the other reindeer invites Rudolf to play soccer, a favorite reindeer game. A) Reindeer. B) Rudolf. C) Soccer. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One. 57. Her dad used to work ..... a multinational company. A) On. B) For. C) To. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For. 58. The head of each noun phrase is in bold. How are these ..... noun phrases ..... post modified? I really like watching documentaries concerning the natural world. A) Prepositional phrase. B) Relative clause. C) To infinitive. D) Verb-ing phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb-ing phrase. 59. What is the verb phrase in this sentence:The Los Angeles Lakers will be playing the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. A) Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat. B) Be playing. C) Will be playing. D) Will be. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be playing. 60. I find it easier to ..... written information in another language. A) Take part in. B) Take in. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Take in. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books