Question

Identify the present participial phrase that describes John.
A) Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag, John saved several trips to the curb but had to carry much heavier bags.
Eliminate
B) Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag, John saved several trips to the curb but had to carry much heavier bags.
C) Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag, John saved several trips to the curb but had to carry much heavier bags.
D) Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag, John saved several trips to the curb but had to carry much heavier bags.


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Answer 1

Present Participal Phrases are whole phrases that work like an adjective, that is, they add some extra information about a noun, for example in I saw the children playing soccer as soon as I came home.  The extract playing soccer is an example of Present Participal Phrase because it is describing the children in the sentence.

Therefore, in Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag, John saved several trips to the curb but had to carry much heavier bags, the extract Jamming too much trash into a garbage bag... is the present participal phrase descrbing John.