"Swimming laps is a good exercise." Is gerund
In the Mr huger, there should be a dot after Mr, and H in huger should be capitalized.
Then keep should be keeps with a s at the end
So it should be like this:
Mr.Huger is trying to concentrate on his yard work, but a swarm of bees keeps distracting him
Hope this helps!
The prepositional phrase is "in" since it describes where the prairie dogs live which is "in New Mexico".
A question that you could ask the author or a character is:
Author: How did you feel when you were writing this story? How did you get the idea of the plot and characters?
Character: When you were in the story, how did you feel about what you went through?
These are just my ideas :)