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Prepositional and Infinitive
Participial Phrase
Gerund Phrase
Appositive Phrase
Which One?
100
Identify the underlined phrase: There must be a way to solve this problem.
What is infinitive phrase
100
Identify what the participial phrases modify – High school graduates replying to a questionnaire about their college courses often mention freshman English as the course giving them the most trouble.
What is graduates, course
100
Identify the gerund phrase in the sentence – Telling your sister was a mistake
What is Telling your sister
100
Identify the appositive in the underlined appositive phrase – Queen Victoria, one of England’s greatest monarchs, ruled for sixty-three years.
What is monarchs
100
Identify the underlined phrase(s) and the type – Converting sea water is one of our greatest scientific problems.
What is converting sea water - gerund, of our greatest scientific problems - prepositional
200
Identify the underlined phrase: He went to the mall on Saturday
What is prepositional phrase
200
Identify the participial phrase(s) in the sentence – Facing college standards, the graduates realize that they did not work hard enough on the themes assigned in high school.
What is Facing college standards, assigned in high school
200
Identify the function of the underlined gerund phrase – The college advises sending applications early.
What is direct object
200
Identify the word modified by the underlined appositive phrase – Have you ever read The Red Pony, a novel by John Steinbeck?
What is The Red Pony
200
Identify the underlined phrase(s) and the type – Scientists are experimenting with two methods, the well-know distillation process and the freeze-separation process.
What is with two methods - prepositional phrase, the well-known distillation process and the freeze-separation process - appositive
300
Identify the underlined phrase as adjective or adverb and tell what it modifies: Caves beneath the rims of the desert canyons were once old homes.
What is adjective phrase modifying caves
300
Identify the participial phrase(s) in the sentence – Statistics reported by the National Education Association revealed that the vast majority of American colleges offer remedial English classes emphasizing composition.
What is reported by the National Education Association, emphasizing composition
300
Identify the gerund phrase and its function – He won the game by kicking a field goal.
What is kicking a field goal, object of preposition
300
Identify the appositive phrase - Groucho Marx, the star of many film comedies, also had his own television show.
What is the star of many film comedies
300
Identify the phrase(s) in the sentence and its type (3) – Reading the newspapers, I was struck by the difference between fact and fiction.
What is reading the newspapers - participial, by the difference - prepositional, between fact and fiction - prepostional
400
Identify the phrase, type, and function – After the concert, everyone praised Gail.
What is After the concert, prepositional phrase, adverb
400
Identify the participial phrase(s) in the sentence and what it modifies – Handicapped by their writing deficiencies, graduates seeking employment or advancement in their occupations are often denied desirable opportunities.
What is handicapped by their writing deficiencies modifies graduates, seeking employment or advancement in their occupations modifies graduates
400
Identify the gerund phrase and its function – Her most important achievement was winning the national championship
What is winning the national championship, predicate nominative
400
Identify the appositive phrase and the word modified – The garage, a two-car one, is attached to the house.
What is a two-car one modifying garage
400
Identify the phrase(s) in the sentence and its type (2) – Fiction never claims to be fact, and writers sometimes aim at distorting facts deliberately.
What is to be fact - infinitive, distorting facts deliberately - gerund
500
Identify the phrase, type, function and what it modifies – The flatlands below the abandoned ruins were irrigated
What is below the abandoned ruins, prepositional phrase, adjective, modifying flatlands
500
Identify the participial phrase(s) in the sentence and what it modifies – Recognizing the importance of practice, teachers of composition, imitating the athletic coach, conduct regular practice sessions.
What is recognizing the importance of practice modifying teachers, imitating the athletic coach modifies teachers
500
Identify the gerund phrase and its function – Give teaching high school students a try.
What is teaching high school students, indirect object
500
Identify the appositive phrase and the word modified – I can’t find my notebook, the one I use for history class.
What is the one I use for history class modifying notebook
500
Identify the phrases in the sentence and their types (3) – Using one billion gallons a day, a city of four million people spends approximately one dollar a thousand gallons, but converted water produced by existing methods often cost five times as much.
What is using one billion gallons a day - participial phrase, of four million people - prepositional phrase, produced by existing methods - participial