Question

Which of the following sentences use a participial phrase as a method of subordination?

Answer 1

The answer is A. walking along the wet street, david avoided the puddles. hope i helped

Answer 2

Subordination means that one clause to another establishes that one idea depends on another in some way: a chronological development, a cause-and-effect relationship, a conditional relationship, etc.  A participial phrase will begin with a present or past participle. To use them as a method of subordination, the participial phrase modifies the subject of the sentence, usually set out from the rest of the sentence with a comma. This is represented by the first option “A. Walking along the wet street, David avoided the puddles” from the ones given, due to the fact one sentence implies the other, starts with the present participle and both ideas are linking by a comma.