This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Prepositional Phrases – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prepositional Phrases Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You can only leave your flat out of ..... A) Necessity. B) Reason. C) Need. D) Necessary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Necessity. 2. Nothing smells quite like a new car. A) Nothing smells. B) Smells quite like. C) Quite like a new car. D) Like a new car. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Like a new car. 3. The dates, places, and times ..... were listed in the brochure. A) The carnival was. B) That the carnival was. C) Of the carnival. D) The carnival. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of the carnival. 4. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:The player threw the ball down the field. A) The player threw. B) Threw the ball. C) Down the field. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Down the field. 5. What is the preposition in the following sentence?I like to sleep late on Saturdays. A) Like. B) Sleep. C) Late. D) On. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On. 6. Because she didn't want anyone else to hear she spoke to him ..... A) In public. B) On the phone. C) In a whisper. D) Out of luck. E) In pencil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a whisper. 7. Identify the prepositional phrase:'Women were not allowed into medical school.' A) Into medical school. B) Not allowed. C) Women were. D) Medical school. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Into medical school. 8. The doctor left the operating room to deliver the good news. A) Prepositional phrase. B) Infinitive phrase. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infinitive phrase. 9. Locate the prepositional phrase in the sentence:The cat is hiding behind the couch. A) Under the table. B) In front of the door. C) Next to the window. D) Behind the couch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behind the couch. 10. He took the purse from her by force. A) He took. B) By force. C) The purse. D) Took the. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By force. 11. Choose the correct preposition: ..... the wrong A) By. B) At. C) To. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In. 12. Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence:What is the origin of the Amazon River? Researchers continue to ponder the question. A) To ponder the question. B) Researcher continue. C) Of the Amazon River. D) What is the origin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of the Amazon River. 13. Use a prepositional phrase to complete the sentence:The dog ran ..... the street. A) Under the street. B) Beside the street. C) Through the street. D) Across the street. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Across the street. 14. Bach lived during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A) Bach lived. B) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. C) Lived during. D) And eighteenth centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 15. Choose the sentence with a prepositional phrase: A) He laughed loudly. B) She danced gracefully. C) They walked along the river. D) We ate quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They walked along the river. 16. The wind was blowing steadily from the west. A) The wind was blowing. B) Was blowing steadily. C) Steadily from the west. D) From the west. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the west. 17. Which part of the sentence is the prepositional phrase:I left my coat at home. A) At home. B) My coat. C) I left. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At home. 18. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: "After the party, we went home." A) After the party. B) We went. C) Went home. D) The party. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After the party. 19. How lucky it is that we are on the same team again! A) How lucky it is. B) That we are on the same team again. C) On the same team. D) We are on the same team again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the same team. 20. Lailah is going ..... the mall. A) From. B) At. C) To. D) Next. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To. 21. Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: "The cat slept under the table." A) The cat slept. B) Under the table. C) Slept under. D) The table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under the table. 22. The winter snow was ..... 16 feet deep in places. A) Across from. B) Up to. C) Out from. D) Out of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Up to. 23. TRUE or FALSE:Prepositional phrases include extra information that may be removed from a sentence. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 24. Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence:My uncle was raised on a farm, so moving to the city was a culture shock. A) So moving to. B) Was a culture shock. C) To the city. D) Was raised. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the city. 25. I eat meat ..... as I think too much is bad for you. A) In moderate. B) On motion. C) At modernation. D) In moderation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In moderation. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPrepositional Phrases Quiz 1Prepositional Phrases Quiz 2Prepositional Phrases Quiz 3Prepositional Phrases Quiz 4Prepositional Phrases Quiz 5Prepositional Phrases Quiz 6Prepositional Phrases Quiz 7Prepositional Phrases Quiz 9Prepositional Phrases Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books