Direct Objects, Infinitive Phrases, Prepositional Phrases

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
Sweeping across the night sky, the bats hunted their prey.

• Sweeping across the night sky,
• the bats hunted 
• hunted their prey.
• across the night sky

What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

To give to others is so important.

• to give to others

• to others

• is so important

• so important

What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

My entire life I have always wanted to be a teacher.

• my entire life

• I have

• always wanted

• to be a teacher

What is the infinitive phrase in the following sentence?

Eating a balanced diet allows a person to keep healthy.

• eating a balanced diet

• balanced

• allows a person

• to keep healthy

What is the Infinitive Phrase in the following sentence?

The way to please your parents is by obeying at all times.

• the way to please

• to please your parents

• by obeying

• at all times

Which of the following is not an infinitive?

• to visualize

• to understand

• to wonder

• to Austin

Which of the following is an infinitive phrase?

• to sing in the choir

• to new heights

• to a better future

• to the movies

In the following sentence, what is the function of the infinitive phrase ?

To smile at others brings joy to yourself.

• subject

• direct object

• adjective

• adverb

Find the infinitive in the following sentence.

When Misty learned to drive, she took her little brother to the park on weekends.

• to the park

• to drive

• took her little brother

What is a participle?

• adjective used as a verb

• a verb form used as an adjective

• Anything ending with -ing

• none of the above