Modifying Phrases

Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence:

Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.

• Quickly checking over his answers

• Quickly checking

• handed in his test

• before time ran out

What is the participle in the following sentence?
Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house.

• shivering

• couple

• into

• house

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 

• their prey.

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair.

• The water drained slowly

• slowly in the pipe clogged

• clogged with dog hair.

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.

• The horse trotting up to the fence

• trotting up to the fence

• hopes that you have an apple

• or carrot.

What is the participial phrase in the following sentence?
The lake, frozen over all winter, was finally thawing.

• The lake, frozen

• was finally

• frozen over all winter

• thawing.

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Searching the glove compartment, Evangeline looked for her sunglasses.

• sunglasses

• looked

• compartment

• Evangeline

What noun is the participial phrase modifying?
Quickly checking over his answers, Patrick handed in his test just before time ran out.

• Patrick

• answers

• test

• ran

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

• night

• sky

• bats

• prey

What type of phrase is in red?
Trembling with rage, she stalked out. 

• infinitive

• participial

• gerund

• appositive