Question

Is the underlined participial phrase correctly placed or misplaced?

The park ranger located the bear hibernating for the winter.

A.
misplaced participial phrase

B.
correctly placed participial phrase

Is the underlined participial phrase correctly placed or misplaced?

Continuing to stir the soup, the phone rang and my mother answered it.

A.
correctly placed participial phrase

B.
misplaced participial phrase

Answer 1

@One098

Answer 2

Whats supposed to be underlined in that sentence?

Answer 3

hibernating for the winter.

Answer 4

and then

Answer 5

Okay.

Answer 6

Continuing to stir the soup

Answer 7

Okay, first of all, a participle is a word formed from a verb. Ex. going, gone, being, been.. So in those two sentences, having the participles underlined, do you think they are correctly place or not ?

Answer 8

im sorry i dont get it

Answer 9

Lol, ok so in the first one, the present verb of hibernating is hibernate, right? So, do you think that it is correctly placed in the sentence? And the same for the second one.. The verb, stir, is in present tense, so for that one, its not correctly placed.
Try the first one.

Answer 10

the first one is incorrect

Answer 11

placed

Answer 12

Exactly! Good job @jpharper