CHAPTER 5 REVIEW

• Chapter 5 Review:• A. Part One: Prepositional, Adjective and Adverb Phrases• I. Prepositional Phrases:• Identify the prepositional phrases in each of the following

sentences:• 1. Many different people contributed their talents to the project.• 2. May Ying Lin, a college student, designed the memorial that now

stands in Washington, D.C.• 3. This picture shows the V-shaped, black granite wall that was built

from Lin’s design.• 4. A glass company from Memphis, Tennessee, engraved each name

on the shiny granite.• 5. Now the names of those who died in Vietnam will never be

forgotten by the American people.•

• II. Adjective Phrases:• Identify the adjective phrase in each of the following

sentences, and draw an arrow to each word that each phrase modifies.

• 6. The year after their marriage another scientist discovered natural radioactivity.

• 7. The Curies began researching the radioactivity of certain substances.

• 8. Their theories about a new element were proven to be true.

• 9. Their research on the mineral pitchblende uncovered a new radioactive element, radium.

• 10. In 1903, the Curies and another scientist shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery.

• III. Adverb Phrases:• Identify the adverb phrase in each of the following

sentences. Then draw an arrow to the word each phrase modifies.

• 11. When he was only a baby, Pecos Bill fell into the Pecos River.

• 12. His parents searched for him but couldn’t find him.

• 13. He was saved by coyotes, which raised him.• 14. He thought for many years that he was a coyote.• 15. After a long argument, a cowboy convinced Bill

that he was not a coyote.

• B. Part Two: Verbal Phrases—Gerund, Participial, and Infinitive Phrases

• IV. Underline the gerund phrase and then on each line tell how the entire phrase is used in the sentence: subject, direct object, predicate noun or object of the preposition.

•__16. There are few people who question the benefits of encouraging teens.

• __17. Walking the path in the woods is good exercise.• __18. The teacher ended Jim's disrupting behavior.• __19. We should teach our children the necessity of helping others

in need.• __20. You should try singing tenor.

• V. Identify the participial phrase in the following sentences:

• 21. He worked hard, filling his journals with sketches like the ones on this page for a movable bridge.

• 22. The solutions reached in his journals often helped Leonardo when he created his artworks.

• 23. He used the hands sketched in the journals as models when he painted the hands in the Mona Lisa.

• 24. Painting on a large wall, Leonardo created The Last Supper.

• 25. Leonardo, experimenting continually, had little time to paint in his later years.

• IV. Identify the infinitive phrase in the following sentences:

• 26. To hike in the mountains was my favorite thing to do.

• 27. My sisters wanted to visit Nashville.• 28. The best room to use for the spring dance is

the large ballroom.• 29. I wanted to watch the Super Bowl, but I

wrote my science report instead.• 30. To skate around the neighborhood was Amy’s

favorite pastime.