Henry's reaction to Williams is<span> surprise</span>.
It (had always been) my dream to go on a cruise.
The verbal phrase is a participle.....I actually don't know that part because i don't what gerund is or infinitive but I do know what participle is. I am in 6th grade.
parallel construction<span> is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same </span>grammatical structure<span>.
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