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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which sentence has a correctly placed participial phrase? A. My mother, covered with spicy salsa, cooked tacos for my dinner. B. My mother cooked tacos for my dinner covered with spicy salsa. C. My mother cooked tacos covered with spicy salsa for my dinner D. Covered with spicy salsa for my dinner, my mother cooked tacos.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@iGreen

OpenStudy (anonymous):

C. The other ones make it sound like the mother is covered in salsa, not the tacos :p

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which sentence has a correctly placed participial phrase? A. The Smiths borrowed a ladder from a neighbor extending forty feet long. B. Extending forty feet long, the Smiths borrowed a ladder from a neighbor. C. The Smiths, extending forty feet long, borrowed a ladder from a neighbor. D. The Smiths borrowed a ladder extending forty feet long from a neighbor.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

D. Because this one shows the ladder is extending four feet long, not anything else.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

last one @naxve Which sentence has a correctly placed participial phrase? A. I couldn't wait to open the present wrapped in silver paper on the table. B. Wrapped in silver paper, I couldn't wait to open the present on the table. C. I couldn't wait to open the present on the table wrapped in silver paper. D. I, wrapped in silver paper, couldn't wait to open the present on the table.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@naxve

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What do you think it is?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

b

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No, it's A. B makes it sound like you are the one wrapped in silver paper, not the present.

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