This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Parts Of Speech > Verbs > Verb Forms > Participles – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Participles Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word is a participle in the sentence:'The singing birds woke me up early.'? A) Birds. B) Singing. C) Woke. D) Early. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Singing. 2. True or False:The following sentence is grammatically correct:'Having finished my homework, the TV was turned on.' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Complete the sentence with the phrase that best shows the first action was completed before the second one started: ..... all his chores, Marco was allowed to play video games. A) Having finished. B) Finishing. C) Finished. D) To finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having finished. 4. Rewrite the sentence to correct the dangling participle: "Reading the book, the plot was intriguing." A) Reading the book, I found the plot intriguing. B) The plot was intriguing, reading the book. C) As I read the book, the plot was intriguing. D) The plot was intriguing as I read the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reading the book, I found the plot intriguing. 5. Complete the sentence:The ..... leaves covered the ground. A) Fallen. B) Fall. C) Falling. D) Falls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fallen. 6. In the sentence 'The broken vase lay on the floor, ' what role does 'broken' play? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 7. The cat was ..... (call) by me. It slowly came over to me. A) Calling. B) Called. C) Calls. D) Call. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Called. 8. The audience are all ..... after watching the latest horror film in the cinema. A) Frightenning. B) Frightening. C) Frightened. D) Frighten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frightened. 9. What is the past participle of "play" A) Played. B) Playing. C) Plays. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Played. 10. Thank you so much for the ( ..... ) prize! I'm ( ..... ) to receive it! A) Thrilling, thrilled. B) Thrilled, thrilling. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thrilling, thrilled. 11. EXERCISE 1:IDENTIFYING PARTICIPLES. Identify the participle in the sentence.Drizzling rain kept us all in the house. A) Kept. B) Rain. C) House. D) Drizzling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drizzling. 12. Identify the participle in the following sentence:*The ..... shining ..... stars lit up the night sky.* A) Stars. B) Shining. C) Lit. D) Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shining. 13. Moving is always troublesome. A) Verb. B) Participle. C) Gerund. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gerund. 14. Identify the participle in the following sentence:Yawning, Kelly made her way to bed. A) Bed. B) Kelly. C) Yawning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yawning. 15. My clothes have shrunk! A) Infinitive. B) Past. C) Past part. D) Present part. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past part. 16. What is the participle in the following sentence:A new tennis ball, covered thickly with fuzz, bounces a bit slowly. A) Fuzz. B) Thickly. C) Covered. D) Bounces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Covered. 17. Which of the following is a participle phrase? A) The dog barked. B) Barking loudly. C) Barked loudly. D) Loudly barking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barking loudly. 18. Complete the sentence with the participle:The ..... pizza was delicious. A) Baking. B) Baked. C) Bakes. D) Bake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baked. 19. What is the infinitive in the following sentence:Sarah's deepest desire was to perform. A) Sarah's deepest. B) Deepest desire. C) To perform. D) Was to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To perform. 20. Complete the sentence: ..... by the news, she decided to call her friend. A) Shocked. B) Shocking. C) Shock. D) Shocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shocked. 21. I was surprised at John's being absent. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerund. 22. Jumping over the fence, the thief escaped. A) Gerund. B) Participle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participle. 23. Dinner ..... over, they returned home. A) Being. B) Be. C) Is. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being. 24. Which sentence contains a participle phrase? A) The cat sleeps on the windowsill. B) Running quickly, he reached the bus stop. C) The dog barks loudly. D) She reads the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Running quickly, he reached the bus stop. 25. Which word is a participle in this sentence? 'The barking dog woke up the entire neighborhood.' A) Barking. B) Dog. C) Woke. D) Neighborhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barking. 26. It was a very ..... question. None of the students was able to answer it. A) Challened. B) Challenged. C) Challening. D) Challenging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Challenging. 27. Although COVID19 has really changed how we do things in our classroom, we have ..... to make the best of our situation. A) Choose. B) Chosed. C) Chose. D) Chosen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chosen. 28. What is the past participle of "walk" A) Walked. B) Walking. C) Walks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walked. 29. Which of the following has a past participle? A) I made a cake today. B) I make a cake today. C) I have made a cake today. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I have made a cake today. 30. Exercise 1:Identifying ParticiplesIdentify the Participle or Participial Phrase in the sentence.3. The key witness, protected by two guards, has arrived. A) Arrived. B) Key. C) By two guards. D) Protected by two guards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protected by two guards. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesVerbs QuizzesParts Of Speech QuizzesParticiples Quiz 1Participles Quiz 2Participles Quiz 3Participles Quiz 4Participles Quiz 5Participles Quiz 6Participles Quiz 7Participles Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books