The following sentences contain adjective phrases. Identify each adjective phrase and the word it modifies.

Example: If you are a rafting enthusiast, you might enjoy a trip to New Guinea, a large island in the East Indies.

to New Guinea—trip; in the East Indies—island

The banks are a chaos of tumbled boulders and uprooted trees.

The following sentences contain adjective phrases. Identify each adjective phrase and the word it modifies.

Example: If you are a rafting enthusiast, you might enjoy a trip to New Guinea, a large island in the East Indies.

to New Guinea—trip; in the East Indies—island

As you can see, a series of nearly continuous rapids crisscrosses jungles of primeval beauty.

The following sentences contain adjective phrases. Identify each adjective phrase and the word it modifies.

Example: If you are a rafting enthusiast, you might enjoy a trip to New Guinea, a large island in the East Indies.

to New Guinea—trip; in the East Indies—island

New Guinea rivers like the one shown are popular areas for rafting enthusiasts.

Identify the italicized phrase in each of the following sentences as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a. gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: The sunlight shimmering on the lake was beautiful. prepositional phrase.

Stretched out in a patch of sunlighthe cat seemed to be grinning. participial phrase.

Juanita likes to draw caricatures of her friends.

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

*During the Kennedy administration, * Marshall became a federal judge.

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

After a two-year term as U.S. solicitor general, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson. Marshall was the first African American.

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

Before federal and state courts. His arguments played an important role in.

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

the son of a schoolteacher, won many civil rights cases

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

using the U.S. Constitution to fight injustice.

Identify each italicized phrase in the following paragraph as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: [1]For more than fifty years, Thurgood Marshall worked [2]to protect the rights of all people in the United States. participial phrase. 1. prepositional phrase 2. infinitive phrase.

Ranked at the top of his law school class, Thurgood Marshall began law practice in Baltimore; and in 1936, he was selected

Identify the italicized phrase in each of the following sentences as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a. gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: The sunlight shimmering on the lake was beautiful. prepositional phrase.

Stretched out in a patch of sunlighthe cat seemed to be grinning. participial phrase.

A number of pioneer women kept diaries and journals of their experiences settling, the American wilderness.

Identify the italicized phrase in each of the following sentences as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a. gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: The sunlight shimmering on the lake was beautiful. prepositional phrase.

Stretched out in a patch of sunlighthe cat seemed to be grinning. participial phrase.

To speak freely on almost any issue is a right guaranteed to all U.S. citizens.

Identify the italicized phrase in each of the following sentences as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a. gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: The sunlight shimmering on the lake was beautiful. prepositional phrase.

Stretched out in a patch of sunlighthe cat seemed to be grinning. participial phrase.

Raul has the talent to sculpt and design beautiful objects.

Identify the italicized phrase in each of the following sentences as a prepositional phrase, a participial phrase, a. gerund phrase, an infinitive phrase, or an appositive phrase.

Example: The sunlight shimmering on the lake was beautiful. prepositional phrase.

Stretched out in a patch of sunlighthe cat seemed to be grinning. participial phrase.

"It's a pleasure to be here with you today," remarked the mayor at the beginning of her talk.