Materializing from the mist, the alarm warned the ship to steer quickly to the right of the rocks. why is the sentence grammatically incorrect? it uses a gerund to function as a participle. it places the infinitive phrase in the wrong place. it places the participial phrase in the wrong place. it uses a prepositional phrase to function as an infinitive.

The correct answer is "It places the participial phrase in the wrong place".

A participial phrase is a part of the sentence containing a participle followed by any other words that complete an action. The participle comes from a verb and can be used as an adjective or a noun.

"Materializing from the mist" is the participial phrase in the sentence given. In this case, it should be placed at the end to achieve proper grammar. The correct sentence would look like this: "The alarm warned the ship to steer quickly to the right of the rocks materializing from the mist".

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The answer is C. Participial Phrase

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)