This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phrases > Verb Phrases – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Verb Phrases Quiz 49 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following sentences.J.K. Rowling might have unknowingly written one of the most amazing series of novels to date. A) Might. B) Might have. C) Might have unknowingly written. D) Might have written. E) To date. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Might have written. 2. What is the linking verb in the sentence below? Seconds later, two faces appeared on the screen. A) Appeared. B) On. C) Seconds later. D) Screen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeared. 3. Senator Trillanes will be arrested because of his alleged failure to comply with the requirements on his amnesty grant. What kind of phrase is the underlined group of words? A) Adjective phrase. B) Adverb phrase. C) Noun Phrase. D) Verb phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb phrase. 4. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? The television show will be on at 8 pm. A) Show. B) Will. C) On. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will. 5. Identify the verb or verb phrase:Aunt Grace has only recently learned to cook! A) To cook. B) Has only recently learned. C) Has learned. D) Learned to cook. E) Has only learned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has learned. 6. What tense is the verb? John sat at the park all day. A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past. 7. Select the linking verb in the following sentence:I am putty in his hands. A) Am. B) Putty. C) His. D) Hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Am. 8. What is the auxiliary verb in the following sentence? You have woken up everyone in the neighborhood. A) Have. B) Neighbourhood. C) You. D) Woken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have. 9. Identify the verb or verb phrase in the following clause. Has Piper chosen a poem exhibiting meaningful insights to the human condition? A) Has Piper chosen. B) Has chosen. C) Has. D) Chosen. E) Exhibiting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has chosen. 10. What is the verb phrase for 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: D) Slammed. 11. The horses have been saddled for today's ride. A) Horses. B) Have been saddled. C) Today's. D) Ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have been saddled. 12. A word that controls and usually precedes a noun/pronoun and relates it to another word in the sentence. Ex. "On" in "The man ON the platform" A) Preposition. B) Subject. C) Direct object. D) Predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preposition. 13. Find the verb phrase:The men will dig a deep hole for the new swimming pool. A) Dig. B) Will dig. C) Swimming. D) Swimming pool. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will dig. 14. Select the verb phrase from the following sentence:"The boy is using the hand vacuum for the spilled smoothie." A) Is using. B) For the spilled smoothie. C) Is using the hand vacuum. D) The boy is using. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is using. 15. What is the verb phrase in this sentence? Does Harry learn some serious life lessons> A) Does. B) Does Harry. C) Does learn. D) Does Harry learn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does learn. 16. Jamal does not watch those kinds of TV shows. A) Does watch. B) Does not watch. C) Not watch. D) Does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does watch. 17. Identify the verb phrase in the sentence: "Many people are earning their livings at unusual jobs." A) Are earning. B) Their livings. C) Earning. D) Unusual jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are earning. 18. It is a phrase or a group of words that grammatically functions as a verb. A) Noun. B) Noun Phrase. C) Verb. D) Verb Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb Phrase. 19. What kind of phrase is the underlined phrase? You must not drive over the speed limit. A) Noun. B) Noun Phrase. C) Verb. D) Verb Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb Phrase. 20. Identify all of the words in complete predicate:Bella and her friend were reading a really good book together. A) Bella and her friend. B) Were reading. C) Were reading a really good book together. D) A really good book together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Were reading a really good book together. 21. Identify the main verb in the verb phrase.Cacao trees are not usually planted in shady areas. A) Are. B) Usually. C) Not. D) Planted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planted. 22. Identify the verb phrase in each sentence.The ancestors of people in Mexico have usually been credited with the discovery of chocolate. A) The ancestors. B) Have usually been. C) Have been credited. D) Discovery of chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have been credited. 23. Anthony's hat was blown off yesterday morning. A) Anthony's hat. B) Was. C) Was blown. D) Was blown off. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was blown off. 24. The mouse was named Shasta. A) Mouse. B) Was named. C) Shasta. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was named. 25. What is the verb phrase in the following sentence? "I will be going to the park this afternoon." A) Will be. B) To the park. C) Will be going. D) Going. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be going. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesVerb Phrases Quiz 1Verb Phrases Quiz 2Verb Phrases Quiz 3Verb Phrases Quiz 4Verb Phrases Quiz 5Verb Phrases Quiz 6Verb Phrases Quiz 7Verb Phrases Quiz 8Verb Phrases Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books