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Which word in the sentence does the participial phrase modify?

Reaching her fingers to her toes, Katie slowly stretched her back.


A.back


B.slowly


C.stretched


D.Katie

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D. Katie
The word 'Katie' is being modified by the participial phrase.

The word 'stretched' is the participle.

A PARTICIPLE is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. They express an action or a state of being. However, since they function as adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns.

A PARTICIPIAL PHRASE is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle.
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