Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases Quiz
Preview:
Select the sentence that uses a preposition to indicate direction.
A. The bird flew over the house.
B. She is at the store.
C. He arrived after the meeting started.
D. The book is beside the lamp.
What is the prepositional phrase? The gopher scurried back into his hole.
A. into his hole
B. scurried back
C. back into his hole
D. The gopher
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
A. With great power
B. Comes great
C. Great responsibility
D. Power comes
Which sentence does NOT use a preposition correctly?
A. The cat jumped off the counter.
B. She is interested for learning new things.
C. They walked through the park.
D. He waited at the bus stop.
Which sentence uses a prepositional phrase to show time?
A. The cat is under the table.
B. Before dinner, we will go for a walk.
C. She is taller than her sister.
D. He walked through the door.
More than three hundred people were _________.
A. on the boat.
B. on that leaf.
C. into the house.
D. over the fence.
What is the prepositional phrase? The team will meet tonight outside the gym.
A. outside the gym
B. meet tonight
C. will meet tonight
D. tonight outside the gym
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence: “He ran through the park.”
A. He ran
B. Ran through
C. Through the park
D. The park
Which sentence does NOT contain a prepositional phrase?
A. In the morning, we go for a walk.
B. She is interested in learning Spanish.
C. They laughed at the joke.
D. She can run very fast.
Select the sentence that uses a preposition to show the relationship between two things.
A. The book is on the table.
B. She will arrive at noon.
C. He ran to the store.
D. They laughed at the joke.
Identify the prepositional phrase in the sentence: “With great effort, he climbed the mountain.”
A. With great
B. Great effort
C. With great effort
D. He climbed
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence: “After the movie, we went to eat.”
A. After the movie
B. We went
C. Went to eat
D. To eat
What is the preposition? Andy drove around the block.
A. around
B. drove
C. block
D. Andy
Choose the sentence that correctly uses the preposition “under.”
A. The cat sleeps under the warm sun.
B. She placed the book under the table.
C. Under the movie, we ate popcorn.
D. He runs under quickly.
Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: “She is interested _____ learning Spanish.”
A. On
B. In
C. At
D. To
What is the prepositional phrase? He will attend the meeting with us.
A. with us
B. will attend the meeting
C. He will
D. meeting with us
What is the object of the preposition in this sentence: “They sat by the fire.”
A. They
B. Sat
C. By
D. The fire
Choose the sentence that correctly uses a preposition to indicate movement.
A. The dog is beside the house.
B. She walked into the room.
C. He is at the park.
D. The pen is on the table.
Choose the sentence that uses the preposition “across” correctly.
A. She walked across the street.
B. He looked across the book.
C. Across the lesson, we learned a lot.
D. They played a game across.
What is the object of the preposition in this sentence: “The painting above the fireplace is beautiful.”
A. The painting
B. Above
C. The fireplace
D. Is beautiful
Choose the sentence that correctly uses the preposition “among.”
A. She found her ring among the couch.
B. He walked among to the store.
C. The secret was kept among the friends.
D. Among the rain, we stayed dry.
Which of the following is NOT a prepositional phrase?
A. In the morning
B. Before the game
C. Runs quickly
D. Under the bridge
What is the prepositional phrase? Daniel watched the smoke rise up the chimney.
A. up the chimney
B. watched the smoke
C. Daniel watched
D. rise up the chimney
Which sentence correctly uses a preposition to show time?
A. She will meet you at 3 PM.
B. He is taller than his brother.
C. They went through the park.
D. She looked under the bed.
What is the preposition? Angela fell asleep during class.
A. during
B. fell
C. asleep
D. class