Which phrase in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" is a participial phrase?
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 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

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Which phrase in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" is a participial phrase?
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 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

psirockin2 · Answer

May you edit the post or comment the answer choices?

I can barely tell where they begin and end.

madisongonza · Answer

Yes give me a second

madisongonza · Answer

Which phrase in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" is a participial phrase? 
1. being blind
2. a quiet street 
3.having been long enclosed
4. with old useless papers
5. the wild garden behind the house

psirockin2 · Answer

A participial is supposed to look verby but be an adjective...

psirockin2 · Answer

the only one that looks remotely like that it "Being blind"

madisongonza · Answer

Okay, Thank you! :)

psirockin2 · Answer

Np! Glad I remember enough english class to help out