This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Clauses > Subordinate Clauses – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Subordinate Clauses Quiz 25 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Is the red clause independent or subordinate? I first met her in Paris where I lived as a child. A) Independent. B) Subordinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independent. 2. What type of subordinate clause is this: "Please forward my mail to wherever my family moves" A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 3. Which one is a subordinate clause? A) Paul drinks beer. B) Paul comes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul comes. 4. Find the main clause and comma in the correct place:I can't help you because I don't know the answer A) I can't help you, because I don't know the answer. B) I can't help you because I don't know the answer. C) I can't help you because I don't know the answer. D) I can't help you, because I don't know the answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I can't help you because I don't know the answer. 5. A subordinate clause is: A) An independent clause. B) A dependent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dependent clause. 6. A subordinate clause is a group of words that is dependent on the main clause because it doesn't make sense on its own. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Identify the subordinate clause. I know a girl who sings in the chorus. A) I know a girl. B) I know a girl who sings. C) In the chorus. D) Who sings in the chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Who sings in the chorus. 8. True or False. A simple sentence includes a dependent clause. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. I'm too busy to take a holiday ..... , I don't have the money. A) Moreover. B) Morever. C) Furternever. D) On the other hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moreover. 10. What does power 4:57 mean? A) Time for Popeye to eat his spinach. B) Time to distract yourself and others. C) Time to get your much needed beauty sleep. D) Time to pay close attention for 4 minutes and 57 seconds, because everything during this time will be on the exit ticket. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time to pay close attention for 4 minutes and 57 seconds, because everything during this time will be on the exit ticket. 11. What type of subordinate clause is this: "Does anyone know who wrote the Prose Edda?" A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 12. Complete with a subordinate clause:I waited for him ..... A) At home. B) Until he arrived. C) To do the homework. D) At the shopping mall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Until he arrived. 13. Although Mario grew up in Russia, he does not speak Russian. This sentence is a clause of concession: A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 14. She had done her best to comfort him, ..... she was able. A) Although. B) Provided that. C) In case. D) Insofar as. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Insofar as. 15. ..... Peter was not invited to the party, he was the first to come. A) Although. B) In spite of. C) However. D) Nevertheless. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Although. 16. Only sighted players could participate until an engineer named Charley Fairbanks invented beep baseball. A) Subordinate clause. B) Independent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subordinate clause. 17. What is the following group of words? the crater is wider than the united states A) Phrase. B) Independent clause. C) Subordinate clause. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent clause. 18. The tigers look ferocious A) Independent. B) Subordinate. C) Not a clause. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independent. 19. Is the following a sentence fragment (a.k.a. dependent/subordinate clause) or a complete sentence (a.k.a. independent clause)? I think this is the most important scene in the book. A) Sentence Fragment a.k.a. Subordinate clause. B) Complete Sentence a.k.a Independent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complete Sentence a.k.a Independent clause. 20. Read the sentence below and identify the subordinate clause. I will not attend the sports banquet because my brother graduates from high school the same day, A) Because my brother graduates. B) I will not attend the banquet. C) From high school the same day. D) Because my brother graduates from high school the same day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because my brother graduates from high school the same day. 21. A subordinate clause does not contain a complete idea. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. Choose the dependent (subordinate) clause:While Bailey slept on the sofa in front of the television, Samson, the family dog, gnawed on the leg of the coffee table. A) Samson, the family dog, gnawed on the leg of the coffee table. B) While Bailey slept on the sofa in front of the television. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) While Bailey slept on the sofa in front of the television. 23. Identify the subordinate clause and classify the it as an adjective clause or adverb clause. First I built four wooden platforms, which were each a different height. A) First I built four wooden platforms, :adjective clause. B) First I built four wooden platforms, :adverb clause. C) Which were each a different height.:adjective clause. D) Which were each a different height.:adverb clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Which were each a different height.:adjective clause. 24. Define the type of the subordinate clause in the following sentence:Your candidate is less truthful than he will admit. A) The object clause. B) The attributive clause. C) The adverbial clause. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The adverbial clause. 25. Mahalia Jackson was an African American singer who became popular worldwide as a performer of gospel music. A) Main Clause. B) Subordinate Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subordinate Clause. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSubordinate Clauses Quiz 1Subordinate Clauses Quiz 2Subordinate Clauses Quiz 3Subordinate Clauses Quiz 4Subordinate Clauses Quiz 5Subordinate Clauses Quiz 6Subordinate Clauses Quiz 7Subordinate Clauses Quiz 8Subordinate Clauses Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books