Which answer choice best explains how the underlined participial phrase is used in this
sentence?
thinking it was after eight o'clock, sam hurried home.

it is used as a verb to name the main action of the sentence
it is used as an adverb to describe the verb hurried,

it is used as a noun and acts as the subject of the sentence

it is used as an adjective to describe the noun sam

The choice that best explains how the underline participial phrase is used is

letter D) It is used as an adjective to describe the noun Sam.

Explanation:

In "Thinking it was after eight o'clock, Sam hurried home," the phrase "thinking it was after eight o'clock" is what we call a participial phrase.

That type of phrase is constituted of a participle and its complements or modifiers. It always functions as an adjective, modifying a noun in the main clause. In this case, it is modifying the proper noun "Sam", which is the subject of the main clause. The participial phrase is giving us further information about Sam just like an adjective would do. For example, if someone said "intelligent Sam", Sam would no longer be just Sam. He would have a defining characteristic associated to him. The same happens in the sentence. Sam is no longer just Sam, since now we imagine him thinking it was after eight o'clock. That is his characteristic in the situation described.

smh

explanation:

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!