Question

Locate the complete adjective phrase and the noun modified.

"I heard the voices of the children."

Answer 1

voices is the noun (person, place, thing) and of the children describes voices so it is the adjective phrase.

Step-by-step explanation:

Leticia was seriously annoyed by the sound of her upstairs neighbors' children playing.

Here, the adjective phrase of her upstairs neighbors' children playing modifies the noun sound . This example shows that the definition of a prepositional phrase--a preposition and its object--needs to include this clarification: and any modifiers of that object. Do you see the participle that is part of this prepositional phrase? Playing modifies children; that is why it is part of the adjective phrase also.

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Answer 2

The correct answer is "of the children". This adjectival phrase is used to modify and further explain the noun "voices".