Phrases

What types of phrases are these: Prepositional, Participial, Gerung, Infinitive or Appositive?

Preserving rare and valuable books and documents is one of the challenges FACING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.


Refreshed by the cool breeze, I didn't object to GOING BACK TO WORK.

The United States, a true "melting pot," has been greatly enriched BY MANY DIVERSE CULTURES.


THANKS!

THANK YOU!! Can you tell me what kind of sentences these are? I'm checking my work on an independent study course! (Simple, Compound, Complex or Compound-Complex)

1-A familiar proverb states that the longest journey begins with a single step; another tells us that little strokes fell great oaks.

2-Many people have heard these wise sayings but haven't applied them to their own lives.

3-For example, suppose you are required to read a 400-page novel before a test at the end of the school year.

4-If you don't start reading the book until the last possible weekend, you will probably not read it well; furthermore, you may not have time to finish the book, and you will almost certainly not enjoy it!

5-Instead, if you start now and read just ten pages a day, you'll be finished within six weeks.

6-The championship golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez knows this technique for completing a large project in small sections.

7-When Rodriguez was a child in Puerto Rido, he learned this approach from his father, who wanted to plant corn in a small field that was thickly overgrown with bamboo.

8-Mr. Rodriguez could not afford to take several weeks off from his job to clear the whole field, so every evening after work, he would cut down a single bamboo plant.

9-Gradually, the field was cleared, and by the following spring, the Rodriguez family was eating corn for dinner.

10-Today, Chi Chi Rodriguez and his dedicated staff at the Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation help hundreds and hundreds of disadvantaged youngsters--one child at a time.

THANKS.

Hello again, Malory.
Last night, I couldn't get one of the sentences you posted out of my mind. Rather, what I couldn't get out of my mind was the answer I gave you. So this morning I did some "research" and found out why I was feeling uncomfortable with my response.
The sentence in question is number 6.
Yesterday, I said it's a complex sentence.
According to what I've founf now, that was not wrong.
"... (for completing a large project in small sections)", can be considered a subordinate clause.
But there is another possibility: you can also consider that structure as a prepositional phrase in which the object of the preposition (what comes after it) is a gerundive phrase, not a clause. In this case, you would have a SIMPLE sentence, not a COMPLEX one.

In the case of the complex sentence, "for" would be considered within the clause itself and the whole construction would no longer be seen as a prepositional phrase. I'm not sure this last part is clear enough.
To expalin it differently, it would be similar to certain cases in which relative clauses, for example, have a preposition before the relative pronoun that introduces the clause, and that preposition is considered part of the clause:
"The house (in which I was born)."
You don't analyse "in which I was born" as a prepositional phrase in this case.

I hope that made some sense to you, and that it's not too late

Miriam

Yikes. . . I'm confused. What is the FINAL ANSWER? This is for 11th grade English, so I'm not sure how technical to go. What do you think is the correct answer? THANKS!!!

Miriam:

There seems to be debate on this issue too?

"Who shall I say is calling?" or "Whom shall I say is calling?"
"Who did you talk to at the information desk?" or "Whom did you talk to at the information desk?"

I looked under the who/whom thread, but got mixed responses!