25 ! is the underlined participial phrase correctly placed or misplaced? christina watered the flowers growing in the backyard. a. misplaced participial phrase b. correctly placed participial phrase

The correct option is B.

“growing in the backyard” is correctly placed. If you were to rearrange the sentence, it wouldn’t make sense. Therefore, making the placement of that statement correct.

The sentence needs to flow and be easy to read for it to have no mistakes and for the statement to be correctly placed so that the sentence,

- flows

- makes logical sense

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the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".