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The answer is A - The minister’s sermon was very short and interesting.
The major way to distiguish a main verb and a verb phrase with a participle in a sentence is to pay close attention to how the verb functions or what element does it modify.
While main verbs express action, participles look like verbs but function as modifiers or adjectives, and they usually end in -ed or -ing.
For example, in "The smiling postman waved at the children", the participle "smiling" functions as a modifier, indicating what kind of postman was "waving" (the main verb expressing an action).
Another example would be "The meal cooked last night smelled good". Here, "cooked last night" explains which meal performed the action expressed by the main verb "smelled".
To conclude, while main verbs express or indicate action, verb phrases with a participle function as adjectives modifying nouns.
Answer:
In this bizarre new world we live in, expect the unexpected. The normal chronology of life has been altered. After the epidemic, the Organization had to instill an embargo on unnecessary travel. It was for our own good. Their catchy slogans filled with alliterations and analogies to make us remember .By "staying inside at all costs" we were keeping each other alive. Local scientists believed that strange antibodies mixed with the chemicals made these zombie-like creatures. Some of us were lucky enough to not carry them. The Organization believed it was deign to talk to anyone outside our walls, that they could be infected too. At the time, everyone was an exponent of their ideas because we all wanted to survive. But Now? I am ready to boycott. As I step outside for the fist time in years, covered in green camouflage and overly enthusiastic, I am ready to reunite with the world.
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