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CHAPTER 5 REVIEW
• Chapter 5 Review:• A. Part One: Prepositional, Adjective and Adverb Phrases• I. Prepositional Phrases:• Identify the prepositional phrases in each of the following
sentences:• 1. Many different people contributed their talents to the project.• 2. May Ying Lin, a college student, designed the memorial that now
stands in Washington, D.C.• 3. This picture shows the V-shaped, black granite wall that was built
from Lin’s design.• 4. A glass company from Memphis, Tennessee, engraved each name
on the shiny granite.• 5. Now the names of those who died in Vietnam will never be
forgotten by the American people.•
• II. Adjective Phrases:• Identify the adjective phrase in each of the following
sentences, and draw an arrow to each word that each phrase modifies.
• 6. The year after their marriage another scientist discovered natural radioactivity.
• 7. The Curies began researching the radioactivity of certain substances.
• 8. Their theories about a new element were proven to be true.
• 9. Their research on the mineral pitchblende uncovered a new radioactive element, radium.
• 10. In 1903, the Curies and another scientist shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery.
• III. Adverb Phrases:• Identify the adverb phrase in each of the following
sentences. Then draw an arrow to the word each phrase modifies.
• 11. When he was only a baby, Pecos Bill fell into the Pecos River.
• 12. His parents searched for him but couldn’t find him.
• 13. He was saved by coyotes, which raised him.• 14. He thought for many years that he was a coyote.• 15. After a long argument, a cowboy convinced Bill
that he was not a coyote.
• B. Part Two: Verbal Phrases—Gerund, Participial, and Infinitive Phrases
• IV. Underline the gerund phrase and then on each line tell how the entire phrase is used in the sentence: subject, direct object, predicate noun or object of the preposition.
•__16. There are few people who question the benefits of encouraging teens.
• __17. Walking the path in the woods is good exercise.• __18. The teacher ended Jim's disrupting behavior.• __19. We should teach our children the necessity of helping others
in need.• __20. You should try singing tenor.
• V. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentences:
• 21. He worked hard, filling his journals with sketches like the ones on this page for a movable bridge.
• 22. The solutions reached in his journals often helped Leonardo when he created his artworks.
• 23. He used the hands sketched in the journals as models when he painted the hands in the Mona Lisa.
• 24. Painting on a large wall, Leonardo created The Last Supper.
• 25. Leonardo, experimenting continually, had little time to paint in his later years.
• IV. Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentences:
• 26. To hike in the mountains was my favorite thing to do.
• 27. My sisters wanted to visit Nashville.• 28. The best room to use for the spring dance is
the large ballroom.• 29. I wanted to watch the Super Bowl, but I
wrote my science report instead.• 30. To skate around the neighborhood was Amy’s
favorite pastime.