This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 37 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He would not have been complaining during practice. A) Would have been complaining. B) Have been complaining. C) Have been. D) Been complaining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Would have been complaining. 2. Which word is the helping verb? Sally might drive all the way to the beach. A) Sally. B) Might. C) Drive. D) To. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Might. 3. Choose the correct label to identify the underlined part of the sentence. The lemon's acid will make electricity. A) Main verb. B) Helping verb. C) Verb phrase. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb phrase. 4. Identify the verb phrase:The dispenser has run out of napkins. A) The dispenser. B) Has run. C) Run out of. D) Napkins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has run. 5. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? A summer without rain does not help farmers. A) Does help. B) Does not help. C) Help farmers. D) Rain does help. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does help. 6. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence: "Even today people can find positions as shepherds, inventors, and candlestick makers. A) Find positions. B) Can find. C) Candlestick makers. D) Even today. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can find. 7. Find the verb phrase:Mrs. Foster is going to the theater later today. A) Is going to the. B) Is going. C) Is. D) Going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is going. 8. What is the simple subject of the following sentence? The angry chef slammed pots and pans. A) The angry chef. B) Slammed pots and pans. C) Chef. D) Slammed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chef. 9. Which is the main verb? The team will practice tonight. A) Team. B) Will. C) Practice. D) Tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Practice. 10. Complete this sentence:The athletes should ..... every day before the competition. A) Training. B) Train. C) Trains. D) Trained. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Train. 11. Identify the helping verb in the verb phrase.It may take about 400 beans! A) May. B) Take. C) It. D) Beans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) May. 12. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:The eggs smell rotten. A) The. B) Eggs. C) Smell. D) Rotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smell. 13. A noun phrase that is the main focus of the rest of the sentence A) Object. B) Verb. C) Subject. D) Modifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 14. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Harry should have been there in the room. A) Should have. B) Should have been. C) Have been. D) Been there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should have been. 15. Find the verb phrase in the following sentence. J.K. Rowling has written one of the most amazing series of novels to date. A) Rowling. B) To date. C) Most amazing. D) Has written. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Has written. 16. Find the Subject(s) in the following sentence: A) I. B) Haunted house. C) House. D) (You). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I. 17. Step 1 for a grammar pirate is ..... A) Draw the mast. B) Identify the verb. C) Identify the subject. D) Find the predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Identify the verb. 18. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? In some years monsoons have arrived very early or very late A) Have arrived. B) Have arrived early. C) Arrived early or late. D) Arrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have arrived. 19. Find the helping verb in the verb phrase. Harry does learn some serious life lessons. A) Learn. B) Harry does. C) Does. D) Harry does learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does. 20. In the following sentence, what is the complete verb phrase? I should be studying for next week's quiz. A) Should be. B) Should be studying. C) Should. D) Studying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should be studying. 21. Look at the verb in red and tell what type of verb it is:action, helping/main, or linking.He will be swimming later today. A) Action. B) Helping/main. C) Linking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helping/main. 22. Identify the red word:Susie is definitely wishing for a puppy this Christmas. A) Linking verb. B) Helping verb. C) Adverb interrupter. D) Action verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helping verb. 23. Identify the main verb:My students will be studying tonight for the quiz. A) Studying. B) Will be. C) Be. D) Tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studying. 24. What is the verb phrase in the sentence below? So, you have never done this before, right? A) Have done. B) This before, right. C) So, you. D) Done this. E) Have never done. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have done. 25. The whales are playing in the bay. A) In the bay. B) The whales. C) Are playing. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are playing. 26. Identify the verb or verb phrase:This has occurred to me before. A) Has occurred. B) Has not occurred. C) Has not. D) Occurred to me. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has occurred. 27. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase.It can grow only in tropical climates. A) Can. B) Grow. C) It. D) Climates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grow. 28. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:Corey is the team's quarterback. A) Is. B) Team's. C) Quarterback. D) Corey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is. 29. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:You look exhausted after studying all night. A) Look. B) Exhausted. C) After. D) Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Look. 30. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted into Gryffindor. A) Gryffindor. B) Harry, Ron, and Hermione. C) Into Gryffindor. D) Are sorted. 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