I do not think that Phil can predict the weather. First, he is only a groundhog. He does not have weather equipment or any tools that would give him knowledge of weather patterns. Second, Phil would not see his shadow on a cloudy day. Winter is usually the cloudiest and darkest of all seasons. If Phil does not see his shadow, it should indicate that spring is not coming early. Third, the groundhog that is called Phil is not the original groundhog used on the first Groundhog Day. The entire celebration is just a way for people to get excited about the coming of spring, it's not an actual forecasting tool.
I think that Phil can predict the weather. First, he is a groundhog. He is more aware of nature and the changes in the weather than people are. Second, he and the groundhogs that have come before him have always been used to predict whether or not spring will come. If he was not a reliable indicator, people would have stopped asking Phil to predict the weather many years ago. Last, when Phil does not see his shadow, that means the weather is cloudy. The clouds show that there is rain coming and spring is the rainy season.
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Ummm.... Using complete sentences, capital letters, and punctuation is ALWAYS necessary -- even when not completing a writing assignment.
Explanation:
<em><u>Asteroids</u></em> are small rocky objects (smaller than a planet) that orbit the sun.
<em><u>Meteoroids</u></em> are the small pieces of an asteroid that broke off when one asteroid smashed into another asteroid.
* [ By the way, if a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it vaporizes and turns into a <em><u>meteor,</u></em> and we call it a "shooting star."]
* [ By the way, when that meteor doesn't completely vaporize in the atmosphere and it lands as a rock on Earth, we call it a <em><u>meteorite</u></em>. ]
<em><u>Comets</u></em> are like dirty snowballs. They are made of frozen gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia, as well as water ice, in which dust particles and rocky material are embedded.
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B. caught at the office
A phrase is not a sentence and can't stand alone. Caught at the office can't stand alone as a sentence; it is a <u>participial</u> phrase because it consists of a participle (<em>caught</em>) and a prepositional phrase (<em>at the office</em>).
