This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Participial Phrases – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Participial Phrases Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Find the participle phrase:The girl singing the national anthem is my cousin, Jamie. A) Jamie. B) Is my cousin. C) Singing the national anthem. D) The girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Singing the national anthem. 2. Seeking an answer the problem was solvedArriving at the bank, od that it was close.Arriving at the bank, we found that it was close. A) Dangling. B) Misplaced. C) Correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dangling. 3. Identify the participle of the following sentence:Children interested in music early develop strong intellectual skills. A) Interested. B) Early. C) Develop. D) Strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interested. 4. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence.Cindy, exhausted from working all day, lay on the couch. A) Cindy. B) Exhausted from working all day. C) Lay on the couch. D) Working all day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exhausted from working all day. 5. Lainey, frequenting the library often, loved reading books by a new author. What interrupter are you seeing? A) Appositive. B) Participial Phrase. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participial Phrase. 6. Which sentence uses the participle correctly to describe the feeling? A) The story was so interested I couldn't put the book down. B) The story was so interesting I couldn't put the book down. C) The story was so interest I couldn't put the book down. D) The story was so interests I couldn't put the book down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The story was so interesting I couldn't put the book down. 7. ..... , the food smelled delicious. A) Made of wood. B) Cooked on a grill. C) Written by a famous author. D) Hurt by the storm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cooked on a grill. 8. Find the participial phrase:Opening the book to the last page, Sally read the ending first. (a) A) The last page. B) Sally read the ending. C) Ending first. D) A. opening the book to the last page. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. opening the book to the last page. 9. Arriving at the bank, oOne of the little refugees hid behind her mother, crying bitterly.und that it was close.Arriving at the bank, we found that it was close. A) Dangling. B) Misplaced. C) Correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Misplaced. 10. The tower is easily seen walking down Michigan Avenue.Arriving at the bank, od that it was close.Arriving at the bank, we found that it was close. A) Dangling. B) Misplaced. C) Correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dangling. 11. Which of the following sentences correctly uses a past participial phrase to describe a black hole? A) The black hole was formed by gravity. B) The black hole is forming matter. C) The black hole forms matter. D) The black hole is formed into gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The black hole was formed by gravity. 12. What is the noun or pronoun modified by the participial phrase in the sentence:'Running late, Sarah missed the bus'? A) Bus. B) Missed. C) Running. D) Sarah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarah. 13. What are the endings of participles? A) -ing. B) -ed. C) -en. D) -d. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 14. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence:The papers, aged and yellowed, were found in the bottom of the file cabinet. A) Aged and yellowed. B) The papers. C) In the bottom. D) Of the file cabinet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aged and yellowed. 15. Where is a comma needed to make this sentence correct?Jody seeing her sister in need of new clothes, passed down some of her old clothes. A) Before seeing. B) After sister. C) After some. D) Before clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before seeing. 16. What is the participle in this sentence?Some ducks sat on a floating log in the water. A) Sat. B) Some. C) Log. D) Floating. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Floating. 17. A word that describes a noun is called a/an ..... A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Participle. D) Descriptor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 18. Participial phrases, like adjective clauses, can be restrictive (necessary) or nonrestrictive (unnecessary). If the original clause is nonrestrictive, the phrase is ..... A) Nonrestrictive. B) Restrictive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonrestrictive. 19. A gifted athlete and scholar, Bobby Jones won the Grand Slam of golf while still an amateur. A) Appositive phrase. B) Participial Phrase. C) Absolute Phrase. D) Independent Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appositive phrase. 20. True or False:This sentence is written correctly and makes perfect sense. "Walking home from school, the rain started to pour down on me." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 21. Identify the present participial phrase:Thinking about her best friend, Sarah decided to buy her a card. A) Decided. B) Thinking about her best friend. C) To buy her a card. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thinking about her best friend. 22. For many students, high school is merely a detention cell, a prison, a facility of incarceration established to bring about anguish and despair. A) Appositive phrase. B) Participial Phrase. C) Absolute Phrase. D) Independent Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appositive phrase. 23. Identify the participle(s) used as adjective(s) in the sentence:The sparkling water splashed in our faces. A) Sparkling. B) Water. C) Splashed. D) Faces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sparkling. 24. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence.Amused but reluctant to show how I felt, I tried to stifle my grin. A) Amused but reluctant to show how I felt. B) I tried to stifle my grin. C) But reluctant to show how I felt. D) My grin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amused but reluctant to show how I felt. 25. Refusing to give up hope, Corrie Ten Boom displayed a remarkable sense of faith to those in the Ravensbruck concentration camp. A) Appositive phrase. B) Participial Phrase. C) Absolute Phrase. D) Independent Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Participial Phrase. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesParticipial Phrases Quiz 1Participial Phrases Quiz 2Participial Phrases Quiz 3Participial Phrases Quiz 4Participial Phrases Quiz 5Participial Phrases Quiz 6Participial Phrases Quiz 7Participial Phrases Quiz 8Participial Phrases Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books