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What are Phrases Practice Exercises
Practice Exercise
Identify the adjective and adverb phrases in the sentences that follow. You may check your answers below.
| 1. | Students with ambition are usually successful. |
| 2. | The painter climbed up the ladder. |
| 3. | Her ring with the emeralds and rubies came from her grandmother. |
| 4. | I saw the squirrels scampering along the fence rail in the backyard. |
| 5. | They anchored their fishing boat about a mile off shore. |
Identify the appositive phrases in the following sentences and the noun or pronoun they are modifying.
| 6. | Her adventure story appeared in Cricket, the popular children's magazine. |
| 7. | Which Shakespearian tragedy do you like most, King Lear or Hamlet? |
| 8. | Would you please give this note to your teacher, Mr. Christopher? |
| 9. | My cousin, a sophomore at the Academy of Allied Health and Science, wants to be a physical therapist. |
| 10. | Marcie told a story about the Tasmanian Devil, an urban legend. |
Determine whether the boldfaced phrase is a gerund phrase or a participial phrase.
| 11. | Trying to be protective, Charlotte put her parakeet back into its cage. |
| 12. | Misplacing my belt with the silver buckle disappointed Dad. |
| 13. | Snoring with contentment, Hallie's cat slept on the bed by her feet. |
| 14. | Having to wait at the bus stop for over an hour every day was becoming tiring. |
| 15. | Heading this year for the Super Bowl is our favorite team, the New York Giants. |
Answers
| 1. | adjective phrase: with ambition |
| 2. | adverb phrase: up the ladder |
| 3. | adjective phrase: with the emeralds and rubies adverb phrase: from her grandmother |
| 4. | adverb phrase: along the fence rail, in the backyard |
| 5. | adverb phrase: about a mile off shore |
| 6. | the popular children's magazine; modifies: Cricket |
| 7. | King Lear or Hamlet; modifies: tragedy |
| 8. | Mr. Christopher; modifies: teacher |
| 9. | a sophomore at the Academy of Allied Health and Science; modifies: cousin |
| 10. | an urban legend; modifies: Tasmanian Devil |
| 11. | participial phrase |
| 12. | gerund phrase |
| 13. | participial phrase |
| 14. | gerund phrase |
| 15. | participial phrase |
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