Identify the participial phrase in the sentence below.
Rising early, I saw the sun come up.
A.Rising early
B. saw the sun
C. come up
D. in the distance
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A. Rising early
Right.
The participial phrase in the sentence is "Rising early".
To identify the participial phrase, you need to look for a verb form that ends in -ing and functions as an adjective to modify a noun in the sentence. In this case, "rising" is the verb form that ends in -ing, and it modifies the pronoun "I," describing when or how the action is happening. Therefore, the correct answer is A. Rising early.