Read the sentence below and complete the instruction that follows.

(by looking through the telescope), i have decided my next adventure will be to the moon.

identify the type of verbal phrase that has been underlined and its function in the sentence.

gerund; object of a preposition
infinitive; subject of the sentence
participial; adjective
infinitive; object of the verb

The correct answer is A. Gerund; object of a preposition

Explanation:

In grammar, a gerund refers to a word formed by adding "-ing" to a verb, for example, the words playing, living and looking are considered as gerunds. Additionally, this gerunds can become part of phrases and create verbal gerund phrases by adding words that describe the gerund in a more detailed way. In the case of the section of the sentence that is on parenthesis or underlined "By looking through the telescope" the gerund is the word "looking" and the verbal gerund phrase is "looking through the telescope". On the other hand, these type of phrases can work or function as adjectives, direct object, subject and others in sentences. In the case of the phrase "looking through the telescope" it functions mainly as an object of a preposition which means the phrase is preceded by the preposition which "by" and therefore the phrase becomes the object of it.

Thus, the type of verbal phrase, in this case, is gerund because the phrase contains a gerund "looking" that makes it a gerund phrase and its function is the object of a preposition as the phrase is introduced by the preposition "by" which means the phrase is the object of it.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.