Bruno's train was comfortable with few people, while the train on the other track was crowded and uncomfortable.
A. to encourage lawmakers to pass environmental regulation
B. to encourage lawmakers to repeal environmental regulation
C. to encourage the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency
D. to encourage people to get outdoors and celebrate Mother Nature
The answer would be A. to encourage lawmakers to pass environmental regulation.
Patriarch is latin, it comes from the words PATER meaning "father" and ARCH meaning "over or superior".
I would say that the adjectival phrase is B. overly excited. An adjective describes a noun, so an adjectival phrase would be a phrase that describes a noun. "overly excited" describes the noun "children." "to the front" and "of the room" are prepositional phrases and "pushed" is a verb.