Identify the phrase in each sentence by underlining it. Tell how you know it is a gerund phrase or a participial phrase.

1. Men grabbed buckets and started pouring water onto the flames.
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2. Blinded by the smoke, workers could not find their way.
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3. The fire was like a wild beat, attacking everything in its path.
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4. Some people met their death by leaping out a window.
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Please help me

In what way does the first line of "london, 1802" vary from the traditional iambic pattern? the word milton is an iamb the word milton is a dactyl the word milton is a trochee?

Which is not among the style choices a writer would use, if he or she is trying to establish a formal writing style/

Your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example ofevery type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by asemicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing itabout the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.