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Read the sentence.

Materializing from the mist, the alarm warned the ship to steer quickly to the right of the rocks.

Why is the sentence grammatically incorrect?

It uses a gerund to function as a participle.
It places the infinitive phrase in the wrong place.
It places the participial phrase in the wrong place.
It uses a prepositional phrase to function as an infinitive.

User Bugfixer
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Answer:

c

Step-by-step explanation:

User Terma
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Answer: C.

Step-by-step explanation:

A participial phrase is a part of the sentence that has a participle followed by other words that complete an action as it functions as an adjective or modifier in a sentence and is placed at the middle oor the end of a sentence. Option C is the answer. It is not a gerund, the infinitve placing is correct and the phrase doesn't function as an infinitive- the correct version of the sentence is:

'The alarm warned the ship to steer quickly to the right of the rocks materializing from the mist.'

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