Question

(1) Miss Flynn is an animated and enthusiastic science instructor. (2) The only problem is that she does not like to get interrupted when she is on a roll. (3) This was obvious during class yesterday. (4) The student asked for a pass. (5) It took ten minutes for Miss Flynn to respond! Which of these revisions to sentence 4 conveys more specific information using a participial phrase? The student standing in the doorway asked for a pass. The student with the blue shirt asked for a pass. The new student asked for a pass and then sat down. The student waiting asked for a pass.

Answer 1

The sentence "The student standing in the doorway asked for a pass" provides a more specific detail using a participial phrase, making it the correct revision to convey additional information.

Step-by-step explanation:

The revision that conveys more specific information using a participial phrase in sentence 4 is "The student standing in the doorway asked for a pass."

In this revised sentence, "standing in the doorway" is a participial phrase that provides additional information about the student, making the sentence more descriptive and clarifying which student is being referred to. The participial phrase functions as an adjective by giving more details about the noun 'student.'

The revision that conveys more specific information using a participial phrase is: The student waiting asked for a pass.

By using the participial phrase 'waiting', the sentence provides specific information about the student and adds more detail to the action of asking for a pass.