Questions 10–17: Indicate whether the italicized verbal phrase in each of the following sentences is a gerund, participial, prepositional or infinitive phrase.

10. (Teaching young children) requires both skill and patience.

11. I enjoy (reading historical) novels.

12. To be (accepted by that college) was my chief ambition.

13. Going to (work this morning), I saw an accident occur.

14. The fruit was left to (ripen on the tree).

15. (Pushing like mad), we finally opened the door.

16. The bottle of juice went rolling (under the living room couch).

17. The fog blanketed the ground and reached across the (entire pond.)

I put the italized words in parenthesis.