The choice that best describes the underlined word 'play' in the sentence is it is a part of common verb phrase.
A verb phrase is a phrase which consists of the main verb and modal or auxiliary verb or it may consist of verb alone. However, in the verb phrase, the main verb always comes at the end.
Therefore, in the above sentence underlined word 'play' is the main verb and 'can' is a modal verb.
By indentify the underline word play from the sentence "my friend jorge can play the guitar and sing?", tho word play in yhe sentence is: b. part of a common verb phrase.
It would be Nemo because that's who Dory is giving the leaf, or the direct object, to. You can think of it as the indirect object bouncing back from the direct object.
