Identify the italicized word as gerund or participle

The dog, trained to do tricks, entertained the children for an hour.

A. Gerund

B. Participle

Read this paragraph. Roderick hastily retreated from the conversation. His friends were sharing their life histories, and nobody could ever learn his. As it was, his friends believed he had moved to town from Ohio.

Which detail should be removed from the summary? This story is about how ants learned to work hard. A long time ago, Mother Nature created ants and instructed them to work together. Mother Nature also instructed other animals to work together.

According to the essay "I just couldn't put it down," what should a well-written plot do?

Alliteration, repetition, parallelism, metaphor and allusion are which of the following

Write four to six sentences explaining the use of extended metaphor in the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.

What does it mean to make an inference?

Review lines 62 to 77 what specific incident in his life is Powell writing about why might this incident be important for Powell to include in his memoir

What are some risks and dangers that could come from communicating online

Identify the number of independent and subordinate clauses in the following group of words. If you could come in on Sunday, that would be great A. one independent clause only B. one subordinate clause only C. two independent clauses D.

Homer chose to focus on the actions of his hero and not the hero's physical appearance because he: A. like describing the monster character more than the hero B. felt that all heros looked the same C.