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TYPES OF ENGLISH PHRASES I

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The building blocks of sentences that can stand alone is called...

a)

morpheme

b)

phrase

c)

word

d)

clause

2.

A phrase...

a)

can stand alone as a sentence

b)

is a building blocks of morphemes

c)

is not a part of speech

d)

cannot stand alone as a sentence

3.

How do you identify the phrase?

a)

Look at the object

b)

Look at the head

c)

Look at the tail

d)

Look at the morpheme

4.

In the phrase "The young beautiful lady...", the HEAD is referred to the word

a)

THE

b)

YOUNG

c)

BEAUTIFUL

d)

LADY

5.

Does a phrase contain a subject and predicate?

a)

YES

b)

NO

c)

SOMETIMES

6.

A noun phrase is...

a)

a phrase that plays the role of a subject

b)

a phrase that plays the role of a noun

c)

a phrase that plays the role of a complement

d)

a phrase that plays the role of a modifier

7.

A noun phrase can function as a subject, object and ....

a)

predicate

b)

pre-modifier

c)

complement

d)

post-modifier

8.

Which of the following sentence contains a complement

a)

Sarah is sleeping

b)

Maream kicks the ball

c)

Daniel tells a story

d)

Shopping is a theraphy

9.

A modifier can be in the form of........ EXCEPT

a)

participles

b)

articles

c)

possessive verbs

d)

adjectives

10.

"The big dog" is a noun phrase with ______________ as a modifier.

a)

article

b)

possessive noun

c)

possessive pronoun

d)

adjective

11.

Which of the following phrases does not contain a pre-modifier?

a)

the cat has white fur

b)

a girl with a broken heart

c)

author who wrote the book

d)

that boy in blue shirt

12.

The following sentences contains a post modifier EXCEPT...

a)

the space in the house

b)

a girl who loves him

c)

the flowers in the vase

d)

the big fat lies

13.

Which of the following sentence contains transitive verb?

a)

Atita sells the dress

b)

He is sleeping

c)

She tells him a story

d)

I did not lie

14.

Which of the following sentence contains intransitive verb?

a)

Ahmad buys the doughnuts

b)

She is studying

c)

We asked him to go

d)

Fadza loves her