When someone asks you about what it means to be an American, how do you answer? Describe the people who live in America. What jobs do we have? What languages do we speak? What do we look like? What foods do we eat? What music do we listen to? What are our cultures?

Which sentence contains a correctly used participial phrase? a) camping by the lakeside, the cries of geese kept me awake. b) after brushing on another stroke of fiery crimson, the canvas looked complete. c) peering through the rain spattered window, the scenery appeared lush and verdant. d) kicking the ball into the upper left hand corner of the goal, the striker scored the winning goal.