Read the following sentence: the cow standing in the meadow chewed contentedly on grass. what is the participial phrase, and which word does it modify?

Yes or no? biology is the study of rocks and minerals.

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

I’ve given a lot of thought to what one of them should be, and the answer seems clear.