The kind of phrase the underlined words in the sentence is: A. <span>adverb phrase. As the name suggests, an adverb phrase functions the same way the adverb does. It modifies a adjective, verb, and adverb. In the sentence above, the phrase provides more details on the adjective "thousands". </span>
The bottom option. The second option doesn’t take out any words so there is no need for ellipses and the first and third quotations take out words that are more necessary to understand the entire quote
