Name this type of phrase, please!

Please look at these examples:

“They ran all the way to school, not stopping once.”
Not looking at the teacher at all, he kept checking his text messages during class.”

Does anyone know what this type of phrase is called? I’d like to look it up in Betty Azar for a student’s reference.

Aren’t they adverb clauses? Not stopping once modifies the verb ran and not looking at the teacher at all modifies check

I’m sure someone will be in to correct me soon :yum:

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Participle phrase

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Next up… diagram the two sentences

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I was never taught to diagram sentences in school (despite my age), but it’s something I’ve considered learning on my own for fun. Yep, I said it.

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“Where WARRIORS belong” is an odd motto for a university.

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If I recall correctly, I wrote that in one of my junior high school English classes (1966? 1967? 1968? anyway, thereabouts, many brain cells ago). I think I wrote it on an exam, because that’s what those kinds of phrases looked like to me. But whether I wrote it on an exam or elsewhere, I got it wrong, and I was informed by the teacher that these kinds of phrases function adjectivally (although I’m not sure she used the word adjectivally in her explanation).

So I decided to ride with the tide and go with the flow.

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sheep

Baaaa! :sheep:

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Careful. Ozzies about!

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Yikes! I’d better stay out of that one. :zipper_mouth_face:

Oooh Shrek, you nasty.

I had to Google that one.