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1. The weather has been cold recently.
2. She did not eat any fruit yesterday.
3. He does not go away very often.
4. Steve is reading a book at the moment.
5. I am watching the news.
i'm assuming that you are allowed to change the verb forms to fit the sentences. i hope this helps! :D
The subject of the sentence is "girl". If you cut out the extra information, the simplest form of the sentence is "Girl tries".
The sentence that uses both a participial an an infinitive phrase is 3. Annoying me into a rude awakening, the alarm continued to buzz loudly in my ear.
The participial phrase is <em>annoying me into a rude awakening, </em>and the infinitive phrase is <em>to buzz loudly in my ear.</em>
