Question

PLEASE HELP 15 PTS.

Locate the complete verbal phrase and identify it's use.

The birds singing in the trees cheered her.

Verbal Phrase:

Type:

More than anything, he wanted to win the poetry contest.

Verbal Phrase:

Type:

Answer 1

the first one is "singing in the tree"   the second one is 'to win the poetry contest'

Answer 2

Correct answers:

1. Verbal Phrase: singing in the trees

Type: Participial

2. Verbal Phrase: to win the poetry contest

Type: infinitive