Identify the phrase in each sentence by underlining it. Tell how you know it is a gerund phrase or a participial phrase.

1. Men grabbed buckets and started pouring water onto the flames.
Explain:

2. Blinded by the smoke, workers could not find their way.
Explain:

3. The fire was like a wild beat, attacking everything in its path.
Explain:

4. Some people met their death by leaping out a window.
Explain:

Please help me

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i think i seen this before

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

i could of w this question but i don't see a " passage " .

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