This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Participial Phrases – Quiz 33 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Participial Phrases Quiz 33 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Cooking dinner for my friends is always a fun challenge. A) Gerund. B) Participial Phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerund. 2. A few days after the interview, Daniel received a letter ..... him a job. A) Offering. B) Offered. C) Offers. D) Was offering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Offering. 3. Identify the participial phrase. The hummingbird, flitting quickly from flower to flower, held my attention for several minutes. A) Flitting quickly from flower to flower. B) Held my attention. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flitting quickly from flower to flower. 4. Which part of the sentence is a participial phrase? Wearing a lei around her neck, the hula dancer moved to the rhythms of the ukulele. A) The hula dancer. B) Wearing a lei around her neck. C) Moved to the music. D) Moved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wearing a lei around her neck. 5. Where is a comma needed to make this sentence correct? Jimmy, watching a scary movie jumped out of his seat. A) After watching. B) Before movie. C) Before jumped. D) After his. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before jumped. 6. Identify the Participial Phrase in the following sentence. Dressed in his flight suit, the astronaut climbed into the spaceship. A) Dressed in his flight suit,. B) The astronaut. C) Climbed into. D) The spaceship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dressed in his flight suit,. 7. In the following sentence, which word(s) does the participle(s) modify? The pirate ship loaded with stolen gold swayed back and forth in the storm. A) Ship. B) Gold. C) Storm. D) Ship, gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ship, gold. 8. Find the PARTICIPLE. The student completed growing piles of homework. A) Student. B) Completed. C) Growing. D) Piles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growing. 9. Where's the participle?The barking dogs kept us awake all night. A) All. B) Kept. C) Dogs. D) Barking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barking. 10. Choose the correct participle form Children ..... in music early develop strong intellectual skills. A) Interested. B) Interesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interested. 11. What is the participial phrase in the following sentence? The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair. A) The water drained slowly. B) Slowly in the pipe clogged. C) Clogged with dog hair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clogged with dog hair. 12. Identify the participial phrase. They boarded the ship lying in the harbor. A) They boarded. B) The ship lying. C) Lying in the harbor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lying in the harbor. 13. Choose the participle below that would complete the meaning of the sentence. The powerful engine made a noise like a lion ..... A) Roar. B) Roared. C) Roaring. D) To roar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roaring. 14. Which phrase in the sentence serves as a participial phrase? Changing all of his plans, Ricky realized how much COVID had impacted his social life. A) "Changing all of his plans". B) "realized how much". C) "COVID had impacted". D) "his social life" . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Changing all of his plans". 15. The crying baby finally settled down when his favorite song came on. The participle in this sentence is ..... A) Finally. B) Crying. C) Favorite. D) Important. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crying. 16. What noun is the participial phrase modifying? Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey. A) Night. B) Sky. C) Bats. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bats. 17. Working hard all day, the boys finished the job by dinner time. A) By dinner time. B) All day. C) Working hard all day. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Working hard all day. 18. What is the participial phrase?The dog, sniffing in the backyard, could not find his bone. A) Sniffing in the backyard. B) The dog. C) Could not find his bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sniffing in the backyard. 19. Where is the best place to add this participial phrase "talking to my family" in the sentence "I can't live in fear of something as basic as fire" ? A) I can't live in fear of something as basic as fire taking to my family. B) Talking to my family, I can't live in fear of something as basic as fire. C) I can't live in fear, talking to my family, of something as basic as fire. D) I can't live in fear of something, talking to my family, as basic as fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talking to my family, I can't live in fear of something as basic as fire. 20. EXERCISE 1:IDENTIFYING PARTICIPIAL PHRASES. Identify the participial phrase in the sentence. Exhausted by her effort, Myra slept for twelve hours. A) Exhausted by her effort. B) Exhausted by her effort, Myra slept. C) Myra slept for twelve hours. D) Slept for twelve hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exhausted by her effort. 21. What is the participial phrase?Recognizing an old friend, Mark made sure to stop and say hi. A) Recognizing an old friend. B) Mark mad sure to stop. C) Stop and say hi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recognizing an old friend. 22. Identify the participial phrase. The scouts roasting marshmallows around the fire told ghost stories to pass the time. A) Roasting marshmallows. B) Roasting marshmallows around the fire. C) Told ghost stories to pass the time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roasting marshmallows around the fire. 23. The problem of most developing countries is the rapidly ..... population which is not supported by a strong economy. A) Is growing. B) Grew. C) Grown. D) Growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growing. 24. 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. 25. A gerund functions as ..... A) A noun. B) An adjective. C) A verb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A noun. ← 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