<span>Compare the ways Silas Marner and the peddler are treated as suspects in a robbery..
(1) </span><span>Both received an apology for the false accusation.
</span>(2) Both are innocent.
<span>(3) Both were found guilty.</span>
The items must be in chronological order if they are being put in a list
The participial phrase is the phrase with the participle, which is a verbal form that can function as an adjective, for example "reading" in " the reading girl".
Here it's "taking" as in Taking a break: the correct answer is d.