Identify the underlined phrase in each sentence as a gerund, infinitive, or participial phrase. walking on the beach, kat scoured the sand for seashells. to precisely convey ideas can be difficult even for accomplished writers. running in a race is a great way to exercise and have fun.

Walking on the beach  - Participial Phrase

To precisely convey ideas - Infinitive Phrase

Running in a race - Gerund Phrase

Explanation:

Words that usually formed with verbs but can be used as nouns in other circumstances are called gerunds. For instance, in the above sentence, the words create a gerund phrase because they serve as subjects of the given sentence. In other words, the gerunds have relationship to the participial phrases because both of them have an ending of –ing, which is a suffix of the root word. Therefore, complete gerund functions as an object, noun, or a predicate. while a participial phrase functions as an adjective not as a verb. Infinitive phrase often starts with the word "To".

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me jerry

explanation:

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.