Question

Which answer correctly identifies the underlined word in the sentence?

The clerk at the post office wanted to know the exact shipping address.

A.
infinitive

B.
participle

C.
participial phrase

D.
infinitive phrase

Answer 1

What is underlined?

Answer 2

participial phrase
shipping

Answer 3

If only shipping is underlined, then the answer isn't participle phrase, it's...

Answer 4

a

Answer 5

You were on the right track

Answer 6

c

Answer 7

or A

Answer 8

No, it's B

Answer 9

3 more

Answer 10

ship, shipping, shipped. This is how you know that it's a participle. It can work either way, but it will change from past (shipped) to present (shipping) to future (ship)