The missing word is a verb.
Simply choose an appropriate verb that makes sense.
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placed
pushed
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1. To teach a lesson, <span>Aesop used the fable "The Fox and the Crow."
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2. Sitting in a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak <span><span>is a crow</span>.
3. </span><span>Nearby, a fox spies on the crow.
4. The crow is the fox's plan </span><span>to trick.
5. His goal is to get her cheese. (gerund)
There is no gerund in this sentence.
6. To distract the crow's attention, t</span><span><span>he fox flatters her.
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7. </span><span>Slyly, he asks her to sing just one song.
8. </span><span>Opening her mouth to sing, the crow drops the cheese.
9. The fox snaps up the cheese in a flash.
10. </span><span><span>To end the fable, </span>Aesop adds a moral.</span>
Answer:
A gerund is a form of a verb used as a noun, whereas a participle is a form of verb used as an adjective or as a verb in conjunction with an auxiliary verb. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that modifies a noun. This grammatical construction usually sits next to another noun and modifies it by renaming it or describing it in another way. Appositives are generally offset with commas or dashes.
Examples:
Gerund: Verb: Read; Gerund: Reading; Sentence: Her favorite hobby is reading.
Participle: A participle is an adjective made from a verb. Verb: Sleep; Participle: Sleeping; Phrase: The sleeping dog.
Appositive: Sentence: "The boy raced ahead to the finish line"; Appositive: "The boy, an avid sprinter, raced ahead to the finish line."
For the first two, the difference is really the context of the phrase/sentence. The gerund turns the verb into a noun, turning the <em>action </em>of reading into a <em>thing, </em>or a <em>hobby</em>. A participle phrase takes the <em>action </em>of sleeping and turns it into an adjective, and results in "the sleeping dog."
True.
Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words
