Identify the adjective phrases in the following sentences.
Rule 3.a Phrases Rule | 3.b
Prepositional Phrases
Rule 3.c Adjective Phrases
1. Once inhabited by American Indians and dreaded by pioneers, the deserts of the Southwest are now popular areas for business and recreation.
2. Caves beneath the rims of the desert canyons were once the homes of small bands of Pueblos.
3. These lofty homes provided protection from enemies, but life in cliff dwellings was hard and tedious.
4. The flatlands below the abandoned ruins were once irrigated by a system of canals.
5. A visit to the desert intrigues tourists from states
without deserts.
Directions: Identify the verbs, subjects and place (parentheses) around and label the prepositional phrases.
Rule 3.a Phrases Rule | 3.b
Prepositional Phrases
Rule 3.c Adjective Phrases | Rule 3.d Adverb Phrases
1. After the concert, everyone praised Gail for her performance.
2. She had practiced at her home for hours.
3. When she was playing at her best, she became unaware of her surroundings.
4. Although she played at home with complete abandon, she was modest about her coming performance.
5. She practiced far beyond the necessary hours, knowing she would not be content with a merely mechanical rendition.
6. Bill, however, practiced for only a short time and, after practicing, always went to the corner for a pizza.
7. If he succeedds wit the right notes, he thought, his music teacher would be satisfied with him.
8. After their first rehearsal together, Gail's cool reaction to his interpretation was shattering to his self-respect.
9. Bill, the best pianist among the boys, practiced in terror for the the remaining three days.
10. When he spoke with us after the recital, he raved
about Gail's playing and groaned over his own mistakes.
Directions: In the following sentences, first identify the verb, then the subject. Next you should draw a circle around the participial phrases and draw an arrow to the noun which each phrase modifies. Be careful and think before you draw you circles.
Rule 3.e Participles | Rule 3.f Participial Phrases
1. High school graduates replying to a questionnaire about their college courses often mention freshman English as the course giving them the most trouble.
2. Facing college standards, the graduates realize that they did not work hard enough on the themes assigned in high school.
3. Statistics reported by the National Education Association revealed that the vast majority of American colleges offer remedial English classes emphasizing composition.
4. Handicapped by their writing deficiencies, graduates seeking employment or advancement in their occupations are often denied desirable opportunities.
5. Recognizing the importance of practice, teachers of
composition, imitating the athletic coach, conduct regular
practice sessions.
Directions: Identify the verb and subject as usual. In the space after the final sentence number your paper 1-20. In the following sentences most prepositional, participial, gerund, and infinitive phrases are numbered and italicized. Study the entire phrase, and after the corresponding number on your paper, tell what kind of phrase it is. If it is a prepositional phrase, tell whether it is an adjective phrase or an adverb phrase.
Rule 3.a Phrases Rule | 3.b
Prepositional Phrases
Rule 3.c Adjective Phrases | Rule 3.d Adverb Phrases
Rule 3.e Participles | Rule 3.f Participial
Phrases
Rule 3.g Gerunds | Rule 3.h Gerund Phrases
Rule 3.i Infinitives | Rule 3.j Infinitive Phrases
1. (1)Reading the newspapers, I was struck (2)by the difference (3)between fact and fiction.
2. (4)Writing fiction does not require the same kind of talent as (5)writing nonfiction..
3. (6)Realizing they are likely (7)to be sued for what they write, writers of nonfiction are very careful about (8)qualifying what they say (9)with frequent attributions.
3. (10) Rarely claiming any direct certainty, they credit others with saying what they report (11) in their stories (12) through phrases like "unofficial sources report," "it is said," and the like.
4. Fiction never claims (13) to be fact , and the writer of fiction seems to aim at (14) distorting facts deliberately.
5. This writing, though written (15) by real people and (16) shaped by real experiences, aims at the creation (17) of unreal characters and events and depends upon the reader's imagination (18) to make them real.
6. The difference (19) between fact and fiction in
writing comes from (20) aiming at two very different uses
of the printed word.
Directions: Number your paper 1-25. In the following sentences most of the phrases have been numbered and italicized. Write after its number on your paper the name of each phrase: prepositional, participial, gerund, infinitive, or appositive. In the case of a prepositional phrase, tell only whether it is an adjective or an adverb phrase.
Rule 3.a Phrases Rule | 3.b
Prepositional Phrases
Rule 3.c Adjective Phrases | Rule 3.d Adverb Phrases
Rule 3.e Participles | Rule 3.f Participial
Phrases
Rule 3.g Gerunds | Rule 3.h Gerund Phrases
Rule 3.i Infinitives | Rule 3.j Infinitive Phrases
Rule 3.k Appositives
1. As it population increases (1) by leaps and bounds, the world faces a shortage (2) fresh water.
2. An obvious way (3) to increase the fresh water supply is (4) to covert sea water.
3. (5) Converting sea water is, therefore, one (6) of our greatest scientific problems.
4. Scientists are experimenting (7) with two methods, (8) the well-known distillation process and the freeze-separation process, which separates fresh water by freezing it (9) into removable crystals.
5. (10) Using one billion gallons a day, a city (11) of four million people spends (12) under present circumstances , approximately one dollar a thousand gallons; but converted water (13) produced by existing methods often costs five times as much.
6. (14) Faced by this economic problem, scientists are exploring the possibilities (15) of a large nuclear reactor, (16) a controversial source of energy.
7. It is possible (17) to build a nuclear reactor which will produce enough heat (18) to distill one billion gallons a day (19) for a relatively small expense.
8 Such a reactor, (20) being built with all the necessary safeguards, would represent a scientific achievement (21) of the first magnitude.
9. (22) Solving the water problem in this way would
be a result (23) of determination (24) to provide
fresh water (25) for every citizen