Read the sentence. After the thunderstorm, the sky was bright, and the open barrels were brimming with rainwater. What type of phrase is the underlined phrase?

a gerund phrase

an infinitive phase

a participial phase

a prepositional phrase

The answer is partial phase. Option C

In the presented sentence (After the thunderstorm, the sky was bright, and the open barrels were brimming with rainwater), the underlined phrase is a participial phrase.

A participial phrase is a phrase formed by a participle plus modifiers or components (nouns, pronouns, noun phrases, etc.) Brimming with rainwater is composed of the present participle brimming plus the modifiers with rainwater. The whole phrase modifies the noun open barrels.