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MTEL English as a Second Language

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Use the sentence below to answer the question that follows.

As soon as they got to school , the students fed the fish in the classroom's aquarium. The underlined portion of the sentence is an example of: 
  1. A verb phrase.
  2. An adverbial clause.
  3. A noun phrase.
  4. A relative clause.
Explanation
Correct Response: B. The underlined portion of the sentence modifies the action in the sentence by describing when the students fed the fish; thus, it is an adverbial clause. A verb phrase is a main verb plus one or more helping verbs, making A incorrect. A noun phrase is a phrase that plays the role of a noun in a sentence, making C incorrect. Finally, the underlined portion of the sentence does not begin with a relative pronoun (e.g., who, that, which), making D incorrect as well.
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