This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Prepositional Phrases – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prepositional Phrases Quiz 47 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the prepositional phrase:Be sure that you know your facts before the quiz. A) You know. B) Before the quiz. C) Be sure. D) Review your facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before the quiz. 2. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence? We rode our bikes on the road. A) Rode our bikes. B) We rode our bikes. C) On the road. D) Our bikes along. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the road. 3. What is the object of the preposition? Please get there after 3 p.m. A) Please. B) There. C) Get. D) 3 p.m. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3 p.m. 4. Which of the following types of punctuation CAN'T be used to set off/identify an appositive/appositive phrase? A) Quotation marks. B) Commas. C) Parenthesis. D) Dashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks. 5. What is the object of the underlined preposition? In the middle of the night, a lioness hunted her prey. A) Night. B) Lioness. C) Middle. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle. 6. What is the preposition in the sentence below? He is the tallest among all the pupils in his section. A) Among. B) Pupils. C) Section. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Among. 7. Find the preposition in this sentence:The boy walked the dog down the busy street. A) Walked. B) Street. C) Down. D) Dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Down. 8. What is the object of the preposition in the underlined prepositional phrase? He is going there with his friend. A) Friend. B) With. C) His. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friend. 9. Which of these words in the following sentence are considered as a prepositional phrase? The birthday gift from his parents surprised John. A) From his. B) Surprised John. C) The birthday gift. D) From his parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From his parents. 10. What is the object of the prepositional phrase in this sentence? The announcement during class interrupted my work on the math test. A) Announcement. B) Class. C) Work. D) Math test. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Class. 11. How do you know if a prepositional phrase is an adjective phrase? A) Describes or modifies a noun. B) One that modifies a verb. C) Modifies the subject. D) Modifies the predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Describes or modifies a noun. 12. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? I have been up since midnight. A) Since midnight. B) I have been. C) Up since midnight. D) I have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Since midnight. 13. The store is located near the highway. What is the prepositional phrase? A) Near the highway. B) The store. C) Is located. D) The highway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near the highway. 14. Which word is being modified by the underlined prepositional phrase? Your teeth should be brushed after every meal. A) Teeth. B) Should. C) Brushed. D) Your. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brushed. 15. Choose the preposition that makes the most sense in the following sentence:Luke turned off the computer ..... finishing his homework. A) Under. B) After. C) Around. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After. 16. Where is the prepositional phrase in this sentence? Mary ate an apple between the rehearsals. A) Mary ate. B) Between the rehearsals. C) An apple between. D) The rehearsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Between the rehearsals. 17. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentencesThe most beneficial exercise for the heart is aerobic exercise. A) Most beneficial exercise. B) For the heart. C) Is aerobic exercise. D) Exercise for. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For the heart. 18. Indicate the type of prepositional phrase in the sentence below.Joe is the student with the highest grade . A) Adjectival Phrase. B) Adverbial Phrase. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjectival Phrase. 19. Which word is being modified by the underlined adverbial phrase? The ticket holders waited patiently outside the theater. A) Waited. B) Patiently. C) Holder. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waited. 20. Find the preposition in this sentence:The strange man parked his car by the tall trees. A) Parked. B) Strange. C) By. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By. 21. Identify the preposition in the sentence:The M & Ms are hidden amongst the Skittles. A) Are. B) Hidden. C) Amongst. D) Skittles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amongst. 22. Which prepositional phrase would complete this sentence correctly? ....., she craved mashed potatoes. A) At dinner time. B) Above the stove. C) Around the corner. D) Inside the dishwasher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At dinner time. 23. What is the adjectival phrase in the following sentence? The voices of the people talking outside the house are very loud.. A) Outside the house. B) Of the people. C) Very loud. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of the people. 24. What is/are the prepositional phrase(s) in the sentence below? To get to the castle, you must go through the woods. A) To get/you must go. B) To the castle/through the woods. C) To get/through the woods. D) To the castle/you must go. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To the castle/through the woods. 25. #4 on the back:What is the purpose of the underlined preposition? "Most animals move to a warmer place each winter, but Emperor penguins do not." A) To describe when animals move. B) To connect warmer with animals. C) To connect two phrases about winter. D) To show a relationship between move and place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To show a relationship between move and place. 26. Choose the one which is the preposition for TIME. A) He sat on the chair. B) They are running on the street. C) Do you work on Friday?. D) The key is on the table. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do you work on Friday?. 27. What is the prepositional phrase? They met during a talent contest. A) They met during. B) During a talent. C) A talent contest. D) During a talent contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) During a talent contest. 28. What is the object of the prepositional phrase? The woman on the boat is my aunt Carol. A) Woman. B) Aunt Carol. C) On. D) Boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boat. 29. Identify the preposition in the following sentence:A monkey crouches in the tree. A) Monkey. B) In. C) Crouches. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 30. What is the object of the preposition in the following sentence? My teacher is always very pleased with my work. A) Work. B) Teacher. C) Pleased. D) With. 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