Answer: In this sentence, the participial phrase is <u>'shining down on me.'</u>
Explanation:
- Participial phrase is a phrase that begins with present/past participle.
- Present participle usually ends in -ING, while past participle ends with -ED or, if irregular, is found in the third column.
- Participial phrase always functions as an adjective, and provides further information about a particular noun from the same sentence.
- In this case, <u><em>'shining down on me</em></u>' is a participial phrase, while '<u><em>shining'</em></u> is present participle. The phrase describes the noun 'sun'.
Answer:
Negativity, western literature
Explanation:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her TED talk on the danger of a single story, noted that the single story of Africa comes from western literature. Adichie went on to quote a historic writing of a London merchant John Locke - who after sailing to West Africa, gave a fascinating account of black Africans as "beasts who have no houses," and "people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts."
Adichie said John Locke's narrative marked the beginning of story telling that described Africa as place of darkness, negatives as well as a place where people - in the words of a poet Rudyard Kipling - are "half devil, half child."
Answer:
A group of words that functions as an adverb
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