The author is guilty of intentional plagiarism if they borrow a authors words.
Answer:
North Richmond Street, <u>being blind</u>, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
Explanation:
A participial phrase is a group of words that consists of a participle, its modifiers, and any objects that complete that thought.
Participles are words derived from verbs that can function as adjectives or parts of verb phrases. There are two types of participles:
- Past participles - they usually end in -ed (for regular verbs), and less often in -en, -t, -d, and -n (irregular verbs). Example:<em> bake - baked</em>.
- Present participles - they end in -ing. Example: bake - baking.
In the first sentence of the given excerpt, we have one participial phrase: <em>being blind</em>. It consists of the present participle <em>being</em> and a modifier <em>blind</em>.
Answer:
?! This sentence has no subordinate clause. In fact, it lacks a subordinating conjunction.
Explanation:
Do note that it IS possible to rewrite this sentence to CREATE a subordinating clause, but there is no subordinate clause that can be moved -- based on the sentence you have provided.
Some examples:
<em>After </em>clothes become too worn to be sold, they can be shredded and reprocessed into new items.
<em>Whenever </em>clothes become too worn to be sold, they can be shredded and reprocessed into new items.
<em>Once </em>clothes become too worn to be sold, they can be shredded and reprocessed into new items.
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I would say the context clue for that would be " greetings from people who were excited to meet..."
