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The following sentence being with two participles. What word do they modify? Battered and bruised, the football team claimed back onto the bus for the long ride home. A claimed B team C bus D football
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The following sentence being with two participles. What word do they modify? Battered and bruised, the football team claimed back onto the bus for the long ride home.

A claimed
B team
C bus
D football

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B or team because it said they came back bartered and bruised
User Amin Merati
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The answer is b. team.

The past participles battered and bruised are both intended to modify the noun team, the head of the noun phrase the football team which serves as the subject of the main clause.
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