what is the participial phrase in this  sentence? the broken vase, purchased by my grandmother, was suddenly falling to the floor, smashing into pieces.was suddenly fallingfalling to the floorpurchased by my grandmothersmashing into pieces

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A participial phrase consists of a participle plus modifiers such as an ‘-ing’, ‘-ed’ and so on

in the following sentence The broken vase, purchased by my grandmother, was suddenly falling to the floor, smashing into pieces, the participial phase is ‘purchased by my grandmother’ because you can find that the above phrase has as verbal ending of ‘-ing’. In addition to this it must not be forgotten that a participle phrase will act as an adjective in any sentence  

not exaxtly

explanation: it depends on the situation like if u do something good there will be good consequences which arent punishments but if you do somthing bad there will be bad consequences which are punishements.

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