Hearing the footsteps of its owner the cat jumped down from the kitchen countertop which word does the particle phrase modify

A sentence basically has a subject, the object of the sentence or doer of the action and predicate, the verb, the adjective, etc. A phrase is a group of words that is also a dependent clause.

In the sentence:

Hearing the footsteps of its owner, the cat jumped down from the kitchen countertop.

The phrase is:

Hearing the footsteps of its owner

The word is:

Cat

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in macbeth, banquo, who in real life had willing in the murder of king duncan, is portrayed as a loyal subject of the king himself. many analysts believe that shakespeare had done this in order to king james, who supposedly was a direct descendant of banquo himself.

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