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A verb that is used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb
Verbal
What is the adverb phrase and the word it modifies?: Some work at fast food restaurants, while others work outdoors.
Phrase: at fast food restaurant
Modifies: work
End in -d or -ed.
Past participle
Identify the prepositional phrase in each sentence: In 1954, a research team set out to study the camel's water-storing capacities.
A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or a pronoun
Adjective phrase
Consists of a participle and its modifiers and complements. The entire phrase is used as an adjective.
Participle Phrase
Identify the adjective phrase and the word it modifies: The aroma of my grandmother's baking was often strong.
Phrase: of my grandmother's baking
Modifies: aroma
Consists of a gerund and its modifiers and compliments
Gerund phrase
Identify the prepositional phrase in each sentence: During a long, hot day, a camel's temperature may rise ten degrees, but the animal does not suffer any ill effects.
During a long, hot day
Identify the adverb phrase and the word it modifies: A student who wants to study veterinary medicine could work for a local veterinarian.
Phrase: for a local veterinarian
Modifies: could work
A group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and that does not contain both a verb and its subject.
Phrase
Identify the gerund phrase in each sentence: Some tasks, such as putting away clutter, involve much walking from room to room.
Putting away clutter
A verb form that can be used as an adjective
Participle
Identify the adverb phrase and the word it modifies: Students can check with their guidance counselors, who will help them investigate possibilities.
Phrase: with their guidance counselors
Modifies: can check
Identify the adjective phrase and the word it modifies: I can almost see Grandmother wearing her dress with the roses.
Phrase: with the roses
Modifies: dress
A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun.
Gerund
Identify the prepositional phrase in each sentence: Instead, a camel's body conserves the water that it contains.
None
The prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
Adverb phrase
Identify the adjective phrase and the word it modifies: Grandfather would say that his favorite of all the rolls was the batch I helped to make.
Phrase: of all the rolls
Modifies: favorite
End in -ing
Present participle
Consists of a verbal and its modifiers and complements
Verbal phrase
Identify the gerund phrase in each sentence: Who wants to undertake the tedious task of ironing all the cotton clothes?
ironing all the cotton clothes
Includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object.
Participle phrase
Identify the adjective phrase and the word it modifies: Whenever I get the chance, I bake one of Grandmother's specialties.
Phrase: of Grandmother's specialties
Modifies: one
A word governing, & preceding, a noun or pronoun & expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.
Preposition