Question

HELP ON PARTICIPIAL PHRASES
Which phrase in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" are participial phrases?
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.

The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the

Answer 1

and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Answer 2

a. being blind
b. a quiet street
c. having been long enclosed
d. with old useless papers
e. the wild garden behind the house

i am able to select more than one.

Answer 3

well, participle phrases always function as an adjective.

Answer 4

they will begin with a present or past participle. if the participle is present, it will end in -ing.
likewise, a "regular" past participle will end with a consistent -ed

Answer 5

participle phrases modify a noun or pronoun, by adding more detail

Answer 6

so which ones would that be

Answer 7

which do you think? ^^

Answer 8

a and c?

Answer 9

tbh i didn't read the excerpt

Answer 10

well, okay. "being" in that sentence represents a state

Answer 11

it doesn't mean a series of actions or repetition

Answer 12

idk these phrases confuse me

Answer 13

@Irrati0nal

Answer 14

sorry i can't be of much help. i'm not good at explaining things xDDx

Answer 15

I'm not really the best with these either, @yoongibear explained it better than I could have. Sorry. :(

Answer 16

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participlephrase.htm

that might help c: