Identify how the verbal is used in the following sentence.

Frolicking through the large waves is my favorite activity when I am at the beach.

-participle as a noun
-participial phrase as a noun
-participial phrase as an adverb
-gerund as a predicate noun
-gerund phrase as a subject

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Which word in the sentence is the object of the preposition ? scrape the dishes and put them in the sink 1)in 2)them 3)dishes 4)sink

What is the correct def of moif? an idea or object that recurs in a text