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Pretest - Adjectives and Adverbs
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1
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Excited by the news, Jeanine rushed home.
A)excited
B)news
C)rushed
2
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Dripping wet, the puppy jumped out of the bath and shook herself all over us.
A)dripping
B)wet
C)shook
3
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Evicted from his apartment, Arnold found himself homeless.
A)evicted
B)apartment
C)found
4
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Recalling the horrors of the war, my grandfather began to cry.
A)recalling
B)horrors
C)to cry
5
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Jamie wept openly, his dream destroyed.
A)Jamie
B)openly
C)destroyed
6
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Screeching, the small bird told its mother it was hungry.
A)screeching
B)small
C)hungry
7
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
The man wearing the hat is Ahmed.
A)man
B)wearing
C)Ahmed
8
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Caught in the act, the thief gave up easily.
A)caught
B)act
C)thief
9
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
I stayed home, having nowhere else to go.
A)stayed
B)having
C)to go
10
Identify the participle in the sentence by clicking on the correct item in the list that follows.
Suddenly, the old bicycle broke apart, scattering bits of rusty metal.
A)suddenly
B)apart
C)scattering
11
We spotted the child walking across the frozen lawn.
The sentence above includes two participles used as adjectives; click on the response below that lists the correct items.
A)we, child
B)walking, frozen
C)child, walking
12
Broken and defeated, Napoleon's army limped home.
The sentence above includes two participles used as adjectives; click on the response below that lists the correct items.
A)army, limped
B)broken, defeated
C)limped, home
13
The Parliament, divided over many parts of the bill, decided not to vote until after the upcoming election.
The sentence above includes two participles used as adjectives; click on the response below that lists the correct items.
A)decided, upcoming
B)divided, upcoming
C)over, until
14
Drawn into the argument against her will, Erica listened to her yelling friends.
The sentence above includes two participles used as adjectives; click on the response below that lists the correct items.
A)Erica, friends
B)against, yelling
C)drawn, yelling
15
Philip likes to eat lobster with drawn butter and fried potatoes.
The sentence above includes two participles used as adjectives; click on the response below that lists the correct items.
A)Philip, lobster
B)likes, eat
C)drawn, fried
16
Below, click on the correct list of participles that appear in the following sentence:
Bored, Frederico pokes at his baked beans, fried zucchini, and boiled ham.
A)bored, pokes, baked, fried
B)Frederico, beans, zucchini, ham
C)bored, baked, fried, boiled
17
Below, click on the correct list of participles that appear in the following sentence:
The child was like a clinging vine, arms wrapped around his father and eyes closed tightly.
A)child, vine, father
B)clinging, wrapped, closed
C)like, around, tightly
18
Below, click on the correct list of participles that appear in the following sentence:
Their parents warned them about buying a home in a town governed by people associated with white collar crime.
A)parents, home, people
B)warned, about, buying
C)governed, associated
19
Below, click on the correct list of participles that appear in the following sentence:
Fearing for his life and burdened with a heavy pack, the soldier crawled across the mine-filled valley.
A)fearing, burdened, mine-filled
B)life, pack, valley
C)heavy, crawled, across
20
Below, click on the correct list of participles that appear in the following sentence:
The exhausted nurses rushed to the side of an incoming patient, badly burned at a backyard barbecue.
A)exhausted, incoming, burned
B)rushed, badly, backyard
C)nurses, patient, barbecue





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