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The italicized words make up which type of verbal phrase?

Turning the corner, Kate bumped into David.
A. Split infinitive
B. Participial
C. Infinitive
D. Gerund

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B. Participial took the test and this was the correct answer.

User Oscar Gallardo
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Every gerund/participle ends in -ing, so you can know for sure that the answer is one of these two. Since here turning is used with an adverbial function (that is, it is basically an adverb - it tells us WHEN Kate bumped into David), the correct answer is B) participial.
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