Question

Which word in the sentence does the participial phrase modify?

Lying in the grass, I counted the clouds above me.

A.
counted

B.
grass

C.
I

D.
clouds

Answer 1

what do you think?

Answer 2

^^

Answer 3

a

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

No..

Answer 6

Participle phrases always function as adjectives, adding description to the sentence. Read these examples:

The horse trotting up to the fence hopes that you have an apple or carrot.

Trotting up to the fence modifies the noun horse.

The water drained slowly in the pipe clogged with dog hair.

Clogged with dog hair modifies the noun pipe.

Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished that we had made hotel, not campsite, reservations.

Eaten by mosquitoes modifies the pronoun we.

Answer 7

@iGreen It is A

Answer 8

"Lying in the grass" is the participial phrase..

Answer 9

And it modifies the person..

Answer 10

hmmm...I'm still sticking to A

Answer 11

Yeah, just go with A.

Answer 12

:)

Answer 13

It says past participles end in 'ed'..