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1. Recall that a participle is a verb form that is used as an adjective. A participial phrase is a participle with its modifiers and complements used as an adjective.

Read the following sentence.

Frosted with gooey icing, the cinnamon rolls were impossible to resist.

Identify the present participle in the sentence.
icing
were
resist
Frosted

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frosted. to resist is an infinitive. were is the linking verb. icing is part of the prep phrase (with gooey icing).
My mouth is watering reading that sentence tbh! XD
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