Verbs Test with Bugs
Parts of Speech Activity
Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Ladybug's sparkly shoes shimmered in the summer sunlight.
shoes shimmered
shimmered in the
shimmered
shimmered in
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Cricket will be playing his violin outside your window all night long.
playing
will be playing
will be playing his
be playing
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Flea and his ten thousand brothers were afraid of the ravenous Dragonfly.
were
afraid
were afraid of
were afraid
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Bee's mother had warned him about Hornet and Wasp's negative influence on his life.
had
had warned
had warned him
warned
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Ladybug put on her favorite spotted dress and went to the spring dance.
put and went
put and dance
put
went to dance
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Ant could lift 50 times his own weight in stale pizza crusts.
could lift
lift
could lift in
could
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Hornet and Wasp are not allowed at the picnic with Ant and Ladybug.
allowed
are allowed at
are allowed
are not
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Mantis brushed her mandibles and washed her hands after the meal with her boyfriend.
brushed
brushed and washed
brushed her
brushed her and washed her
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Bee will be buzzing by flowers and through showers for hours this spring.
will be
will be buzzing
buzzing
be buzzing
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Tick is having a warm, refreshing drink of camper's blood.
drink
is
drink of
is having
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Butterfly fluttered by the fly beside the butter knife.
fluttered by the fly
fluttered by
fluttered by the
fluttered
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Mantis invited her boyfriend over for an afternoon snack.
invited
invited her
invited for snack
invited her boyfriend
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Hornet and Wasp were flying around and looking for trouble.
were flying around and looking
were flying
were flying and looking
flying and looking
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Which is the verb phrase in the following sentence?
Can you hear Cricket's song in your lawn at dawn?
Can you hear
Can hear
hear
Can you
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Ant ________ his crumbs with his friend Lady Bug until that hungry Spider showed up.
was going to share
were going to share
we're going to share
will be sharing
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Wasp and Hornet ________ around the yard and looking for some luckless fool to sting.
flew
was flying
had flown
were flying
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
"If I ________ Bee, I'd mind my own beeswax," said Hornet to his temperamental friend Wasp.
where
we're
was
were
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
If Ant ________ that it was going to rain so much, he wouldn't have even came to the picnic.
had knew
known
knows
had known
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Mantis ________ at her bigheaded boyfriend and licking her lips.
looks
looked
had looked
was looking
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Tick ________ very thirsty by the time the campers begin to set up their tents.
will be
is
has been
had been
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
After Grasshopper smashed up Spider's bedroom, Spider ________ that it was time to build a new home.
decides
decide
decided
will decide
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Flea ________ of his ten-thousand brothers borrowing his things without asking.
was sick
sick
we're sick
were sick
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Fly ________ the cookie crumbs, but he flew off to find something stinkier.
could a ate
could have eaten
could of ate
could of eaten
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Spider, a natural homebody, ________ a new room to his home below the gutter.
was busy adding
were busy adding
busy adding
we're busy adding
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Wasp ________ Bee with the flowers, but Wasp was much too busy scaring children.
would of helped
would a helped
would have helped
would of help
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
"________ too busy eating this dog," said Flea to his parasitic friend Tick.
We're
We
Where
Were
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Fly ________ by Butterfly during Spider's suppertime.
flown
flew
flyed
flied
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Mantis ________ pantless in Kansas.
dances and prancing
dances and prances
danced and prancing
dancing and prances
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Fly ________ the nauseating scent of my locker.
love
loving
be loving
loves
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Which answer best completes the following sentence?
Moth and Tick ________ a riotous insect party in your sweater.
is throwing
are throwing
fin to throw
throwing
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