what is the participial phrase in this  sentence? the broken vase, purchased by my grandmother, was suddenly falling to the floor, smashing into pieces.was suddenly fallingfalling to the floorpurchased by my grandmothersmashing into pieces

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A participial phrase consists of a participle plus modifiers such as an ‘-ing’, ‘-ed’ and so on

in the following sentence The broken vase, purchased by my grandmother, was suddenly falling to the floor, smashing into pieces, the participial phase is ‘purchased by my grandmother’ because you can find that the above phrase has as verbal ending of ‘-ing’. In addition to this it must not be forgotten that a participle phrase will act as an adjective in any sentence  

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

c.to compare several aspects of the tragedy to other worldwide tragedies