This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Sentence Structure > Sentence Types > Simple Sentences – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Simple Sentences Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the complete subject in the sentence below.The orange leaves fell from the tree. A) Leaves. B) Fell from the tree. C) Fell. D) The orange leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The orange leaves. 2. Complete the sentence with the appropriate verb:The flowers ..... in the garden. A) Growing. B) Grown. C) Grow. D) Grows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grow. 3. Sat / boy / on the / The / chair / . A) The chair sat on the boy. B) The boy sat on the chair. C) Boy sat on the chair the. D) The chair boy sat on the. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The boy sat on the chair. 4. The dog ran in front of the car. What is the verb? A) Ran. B) Dog. C) Car. D) Front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ran. 5. True or False:In the command 'Do your homework before dinner, ' the subject is 'homework.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. Lazybones hates playing. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 7. Complete the sentence with a predicate adjective that describes the subject:After running the mile in gym class, I felt ..... A) Exhaustion. B) Tired. C) To rest. D) My legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tired. 8. In the sentence 'The new student with the cool backpack sits in the front row, ' what is the simple subject? A) The new student. B) The new student with the cool backpack. C) Backpack. D) Student. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Student. 9. Complete the sentence:The sun ..... brightly. A) Shine. B) Shining. C) Shone. D) Shines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shines. 10. True or False:A simple sentence can have a compound predicate. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. A pride of lions ..... up to forty lions, including one to three males, several females, and cubs. A) Containing. B) Contain. C) Can contain. D) It contains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can contain. 12. Where should the comma be placed in the following sentence:I have always wanted a dog so I researched a lot about them. A) B. B) I have always wanted a dog, so I researched a lot about them. C) I have always wanted a dog so I researched a lot about, them. D) I have always wanted a dog so I researched, a lot about them. E) I have always wanted a dog so, I researched a lot about them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I have always wanted a dog, so I researched a lot about them. 13. We ..... English. A) Speak. B) Speaks. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speak. 14. Positive:The boy ..... (read) a book A) Does read. B) Read. C) Reads. D) Do not read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reads. 15. For he was tired. A) Sentence fragment. B) Simple sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence fragment. 16. What's the synonym of 'monstrous'? A) Hideous. B) Gorgeous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hideous. 17. Combine the sentences to make a compound sentence. Use a conjunction, such as and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet. The dog barked loudly. The neighbors complained. A) The dog barked loudly, nor the neighbors complained. B) The dog barked loudly, so the neighbors complained. C) The dog barked loudly, for the neighbors complained. D) The dog barked loudly, yet the neighbors complained. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog barked loudly, so the neighbors complained. 18. London has become famous for its thick fogs and often has rainy weather. A) SV. B) SVV. C) SSV. D) SSVV. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SVV. 19. Complete the sentence with a predicate nominative (a noun that renames the subject):My best friend is ..... A) An awesome skateboarder. B) At the park. C) Very funny. D) Laughing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An awesome skateboarder. 20. What is the verb of the sentence? Randall sings in a band. A) Randall. B) Sings. C) In. D) Band. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sings. 21. What is the predicate of this sentence ..... My aunt Mary and I like to go shopping. A) Like to go shopping. B) Mary and I. C) Go shopping. D) My aunt Mary and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Like to go shopping. 22. What type of sentence is this:The kids kept taking the candy even though we were watching them. A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complex. 23. Meeta play reel English? A) Ukkur. B) Iisch. C) Fattabw. D) Mwungo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ukkur. 24. What is the VERB in the following sentence:My dog ran away. A) Ran. B) My. C) Away. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ran. 25. Shows a relationship between words in a sentence A) Noun. B) Interjection. C) Preposition. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preposition. 26. What type of sentence? Yes, I knew you could do it ..... A) Declarative (.). B) Imperative (.). C) Interrogative (? ). D) Exclamatory (!). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exclamatory (!). 27. The baby cried for food. A) Simple Sentence. B) Compound Sentence. C) Complex Sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple Sentence. 28. What is the subject of this sentence? An enterprising cameraman hired a helicopter. A) An enterprising cameraman. B) Hired. C) A helicopter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An enterprising cameraman. 29. The object of a sentence is A) The action that the person or thing does. B) The person or thing that action does. C) The noun that answers the question Who? or What?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The noun that answers the question Who? or What?. 30. Identify the group of words:Ben is reading a book about how dinosaurs were extinct. A) Simple sentence. B) Fragment. C) Compound sentence. D) Run-on. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple sentence. 31. What is the best way to combine the following independent clauses? Allison finished her Learning Farm assignment. A) Allison finished her Learning Farm assignment, yet she still needs to take an AR test. B) Allison finished her Learning Farm assignment, or she still needs to take an AR test. C) Allison finished her Learning Farm assignment, for she still needs to take an AR test. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allison finished her Learning Farm assignment, yet she still needs to take an AR test. 32. What type of sentence? Get the hose from out back ..... A) Exclamatory (!). B) Declarative (.). C) Imperative (.). D) Interrogative (? ). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperative (.). 33. Is it a simple sentence? -I was exhausted after working all day. A) No. B) Yes. C) I don't know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 34. What is the simple subject on the given sentence? Owen's little brother wants to play basketball with him. A) Brother. B) Owen's brother. C) Little brother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brother. 35. Choose the correct formula for the sentence.My grandfather is old in years but young in spirit. A) SVV. B) SSVV. C) SSV. D) SV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SV. 36. Which sentence has a compound verb? A) Mr. Jones thought about the worried students. B) Mr. Jones worried about students. C) Mr. Jones thought about class. D) Mr. Jones thought and worried about his class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Jones thought and worried about his class. 37. What is the complete subject? The problem on the test was hard to answer A) Was hard. B) The problem. C) The problem on the test. D) Was hard to answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The problem on the test. 38. We recently read the short story "Flowers for Algernon" and it was sad. A) Simple sentence. B) Complex sentence. C) Compound sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple sentence. 39. What is the complete subject on the given sentence? Those tables and chairs are going to be sold this weekend. A) Tables and chairs. B) Those table and chairs. C) Tables and chairs are. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Those table and chairs. 40. What is the COMPLETE predicate of this sentence? Marsha ran a half marathon A) Ran a half marathon. B) Marathon. C) Ran. D) Marsha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ran a half marathon. 41. Dirty clothes, books, and toys covered the floor. A) Subject. B) Predicate. C) Main noun(s). D) Main verb(s). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Main noun(s). 42. After the fair starts and before the competition. A) Compound. B) Simple. C) Complex. D) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fragment. 43. What is true about a simple sentence? A) It is acceptable to write an entire paragraph using only simple sentences. B) Simple sentences sometimes use a semicolon. C) Simple sentences don't always have a predicate. D) Simple sentences can be long or short. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simple sentences can be long or short. 44. A predicate of a sentence is ALWAYS a ..... A) Verb/linking verb. B) Verb/preposition. C) Adjective/adverb. D) Verb/adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verb/linking verb. 45. What is the COMPLETE subject of this sentence? Mary ran errands after work. A) Mary. B) Ran. C) Ran errands after work. D) Mary ran. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ran errands after work. 46. What is the subject of the sentence? Laure Halse Anderson wrote the novel Speak. A) Speak. B) Novel. C) Wrote. D) Laure Halse Anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laure Halse Anderson. 47. What is the subject in the following sentence? Poetry connects to our lives. A) Poetry. B) Connects. C) Our. D) Lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 48. Ahza chased the cat through the ditch and up the tree. What is the verb? A) Cat. B) Chased. C) Tree. D) Ahza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chased. 49. The man stopped his work.'The man' is the ..... of the sentence. A) Subject. B) Verb. C) Object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject. 50. Is this sentence simple, complex, or compound? :Danny's father is a good fisher; he even used to work for a fishing company. A) Complex. B) Simple. C) Compound. D) Simple Predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complex. 51. Read the following sentence:The 2020 school year will always be remembered as the year of the quarantine. Identify the subject. A) The year of the quarantine. B) The 2020 school year. C) Be remembered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 2020 school year. 52. What IS NOT in a simple sentence? A) A capital letter and punctuation. B) Independent clause. C) Fragments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fragments. 53. Choose the correct formula for the sentence.My grandfather and grandmother love parties and invite people to their house all the time. A) SV. B) SVV. C) SSVV. D) SSV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SSVV. 54. What is the complete predicate on the given sentence? Susan and Charlie will do their homework and go to the library. A) Will do and go. B) Will do their homework. C) Will do their homework and go to the library. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will do their homework and go to the library. 55. Make these two simple sentences into one compound sentence. I like spaghetti. I like hot dogs. A) I like spaghetti, but I also like hot dogs. B) I like spaghetti, nor I also like hot dogs. C) Because I like hot dogs, I also like spaghetti. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I like spaghetti, but I also like hot dogs. 56. Which of the following is the closest synonym for the term simple sentence? A) Independent clause. B) Dependent clause. C) Thought. D) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independent clause. 57. What is the subject in this sentence? In the afternoon, Ms. Gulam went to Target. A) Went. B) Ms. Gulam. C) Afternoon. D) Target. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ms. Gulam. 58. What type of sentence is this? Whenever it rained, Kerry thought of her home in Ireland, and she worried about her mother. A) Compound-complex. B) Simple. C) Complex. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound-complex. 59. ..... sentences have a subject and a verb. A) No. B) Some. C) All. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All. 60. Identify the verb or verb phraseGroup 2 has worked extremely hard to meet its goals. A) Has worked. B) Extremely hard. C) Worked extremely. D) To meet. 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