Underline and identify the participial, prepositional, gerund, or infinitive phrase(s) in each sentence.

on thursday i drove up north to move a couch for a friend. 
if your shoes have a lot of surface area, hiking through a snow drift gets a lot easier.


already exhausted by the second quarter, we were no match for the division champions. 


that award, offered once a year to only one teacher in the entire state, is quite an honor to win. 


hoping against all hope that the balding tires would hold and the rusting fuel pump would continue to work, i loaded up all of the possessions that would fit, discarded the rest in a dumpster behind a truck stop, and set out to cross the country.

On Thursday I drove up north to move a couch for a friend.

(prepositional) (participial)         (infinitive)

 If your shoes have a lot of surface area, hiking through a snow drift gets a lot easier.    (infinitive)                         (gerund)  (prepositional)


Already exhausted by the second quarter, we were no match for the

(past participial)  (prepositional)                 (participial)

division champions.  

That award, offered once a year to only one teacher in the entire state,

                   (participial)   (prepositional)

is quite an honor to win.  

                             (infinitive)

Hoping     against     all hope that the balding tires would hold and the

(gerund)  (prepositional)                                                    (infinitive)

rusting fuel pump would continue to work, I loaded up all of the

                                     (infinitive)                  (participial)

possessions that would fit, discarded the rest in a dumpster behind a truck

                                   (infinitive)  (participial)                          (prepositional)

stop, and set out to cross the country.

            (participial)

what is a theme?

ans: the implicit idea of a written work of literature is called a theme.

so, the only theme of "birdfoot's grampa" by joseph bruchuc is that as a human being one should always remember the value of every life on earth.

the grampa is stopping the car again and again to save those little toads from washing away in the heavy rain is an act of kindness and humanity.