Underline and identify the participial, prepositional, gerund, or infinitive phrase(s) in each sentence.

on thursday i drove up north to move a couch for a friend. 
if your shoes have a lot of surface area, hiking through a snow drift gets a lot easier.


already exhausted by the second quarter, we were no match for the division champions. 


that award, offered once a year to only one teacher in the entire state, is quite an honor to win. 


hoping against all hope that the balding tires would hold and the rusting fuel pump would continue to work, i loaded up all of the possessions that would fit, discarded the rest in a dumpster behind a truck stop, and set out to cross the country.

On Thursday I drove up north to move a couch for a friend.

(prepositional) (participial)         (infinitive)

 If your shoes have a lot of surface area, hiking through a snow drift gets a lot easier.    (infinitive)                         (gerund)  (prepositional)


Already exhausted by the second quarter, we were no match for the

(past participial)  (prepositional)                 (participial)

division champions.  

That award, offered once a year to only one teacher in the entire state,

                   (participial)   (prepositional)

is quite an honor to win.  

                             (infinitive)

Hoping     against     all hope that the balding tires would hold and the

(gerund)  (prepositional)                                                    (infinitive)

rusting fuel pump would continue to work, I loaded up all of the

                                     (infinitive)                  (participial)

possessions that would fit, discarded the rest in a dumpster behind a truck

                                   (infinitive)  (participial)                          (prepositional)

stop, and set out to cross the country.

            (participial)

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

explanation:

a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.