Advanced Grammar Practice Quiz

25 harder multiple choice questions on verb tenses, pronouns, prepositional phrases, and adjective types.

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1. Which sentence uses the past perfect progressive tense?

2. Which sentence correctly uses the present perfect tense?

3. Which sentence shifts verb tense incorrectly?

4. Which sentence uses the future perfect tense?

5. Which sentence uses the present progressive tense rather than the present perfect progressive tense?

6. Which verb tense is used in this sentence? The committee has been reviewing the proposal since Monday.

7. Which sentence uses the past perfect tense to show the earlier of two past actions?

8. In the sentence “Everyone brought their notebook to class,” what type of pronoun is “Everyone”?

9. In the sentence “The athlete who finished first broke the school record,” what type of pronoun is “who”?

10. Which sentence contains a demonstrative pronoun, not a demonstrative adjective?

11. Which sentence uses an objective personal pronoun correctly?

12. In the sentence “Which of the two essays did you revise?” what type of pronoun is “Which”?

13. Which sentence contains a reflexive pronoun used correctly?

14. Which sentence contains a prepositional phrase functioning as an adjective?

15. Which sentence contains a prepositional phrase functioning as an adverb?

16. Which words make up the complete prepositional phrase in this sentence? The answer to the final question confused several students.

17. Which sentence has two prepositional phrases?

18. In the sentence “The student near the lockers dropped her binder after class,” which prepositional phrase functions as an adjective?

19. Which sentence contains no prepositional phrase?

20. What type of adjective is “those” in this sentence? Those instructions were clearer than the first set.

21. What type of adjective is “several” in this sentence? Several explanations seemed reasonable at first.

22. Which sentence contains a proper adjective?

23. In the sentence “Whose backpack was left beside the gym doors?” what type of adjective is “Whose”?

24. Which sentence uses a superlative adjective correctly?

25. Which sentence contains a descriptive adjective, a demonstrative adjective, and a prepositional phrase?