PRACTICING WITH PHRASES WORKSHEET

SECTION I: FINDING PREPOSITIONS PHRASESUnderline the preposition phrases in each sentence. There may be more than one.1. Gustav Mahlers Symphony No. 3 is the longest of all symphonies.2. Claude Monet painted hundreds of pictures of the same water-lily garden.3. Among the most easily recognized photographs are those of Ansel Adams.4. Julia Margaret Cameron, a pioneering photographer of the 19th century, developed new techniques in portrait photography.5. During his career, Italian sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini worked for five popes.

SECTION IV: IDENTIFYING ESSENTIAL AND NONESSENTIAL APPOSITIVE PHRASESUnderline the appositive phrase in each sentence. Circle the noun it identifies. Add necessary commas. On the line, identify each phrase as E for essential or NE if it is nonessential.6. Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard is an oceanographic engineer.7. His father Auguste Piccard designed the bathyscaphe.8. In 1953, the two Piccards descended 10,300 feet under the Mediterranean Sea in the bathyscaphe Trieste.9. The Great Barrier Reef a chain of coral reefs is located of the northeastern coast of Australia.10. The coral is formed by polyps hardened skeletons of flowerlike water animals.

SECTION VI: IDENTIFYING PARTICIPIAL PHRASESIn each sentence, find and underline the participial phrase that modifies the boldfaced noun or pronoun. On the blank, write what kind of participial it is: PRESENT for present participle or PAST for past participle.11. Writing quickly, the students took the exam12. The travelers saw a huge stone castle perched on the rocky cliff.13. The boy performing a solo on the trumpet is my brother.14. Swimming with his friend, Frances made it to the float. 15. Eds sailboat, damaged near the stern, was unusable. SECTION

SECTION VIII: IDENTIFYING GERUNDSIn each sentence, underline every gerund phrase. Circle the gerund.16. Speeding down mountain slopes thrills many skiers.17. Cross-country style identifies hiking on skis over snow-covered ground.18. Norwegian immigrants introduced skiing into the United States in the mid-1800s.19. Almost every ski area in the United States has machines for making snow.20. Ski areas also have ski lifts, devices for transporting skiers to the tops of slops.

SECTION X: IDENTIFYING INFINITIVE PHRASESIn each sentence, underline the infinitive phrase. Circle the infinitive.21. The tourists asked the bus driver to go slower.22. Their purpose for taking the tour was to see the countryside.23. The earliest attempts to fly ended in embarrassment, if not injury.24. Roberts plan to compete in a triathlon surprised everyone.25. In the spring, crabs begin to shed their shells.26. Yes, we packed supplies enough to last a full week.