Main Verb Phrases

1. Present + HAVE + [-en] + BE + [-en] + DRIVE = passive
2. Past + PEAK = simple past
   Past + DECLINE = simple past
3. Past + ENTER = simple past
   NOTE: MOTIVATED is a past participle phrase
4. Past + WORK = simple past
   Present + BE + [-en] + EMPLOY = passive
5. Present + HAVE + [-en] + NOTE = present perfect
   Present + HAVE + [-en] + INCREASE = present perfect
   Present + PERFORM = simple present
6. Past + BE + [-en] + SPEND = passive
   NOTE: USED is a past participle phrase
7. Present + BE + [-en] + SPEND = passive
   NOTE: USED is a past participle phrase

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1. to a great extent = adverbial prepositional phrase

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1. of the world = adverbial prepositional phrase
2. to eat = nominal infinitive phrase (subject)
3. with a fuller consciousness = adverbial prepositional phrase
4. of all = adjectival prepositional phrase (CONSCIOUSNESS)

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1. like a burden = adverbial prepositional phrase
2. in practice = prep phrase, ADVP
3. in life = adjectival prepositional phrase (THINGS)
4. as much satisfaction = adverbial prepositional phrase - NOTE: QUITE AS MUCH could be a compound determiner, which would make SATISFACTION the direct object.

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1. by comparison = adverbial prepositional phrase
2. of eating industrially = adjectival prepositional phrase (PLEASURES)
3. eating industrially = nominal gerund phrase (object of the preposition OF)
4. to say = nominal infinitive phrase - subject complement (WHICH)
5. eating in ignorance - nominal gerund phrase (direct object of TO SAY)

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1. in ignorance = adjectival prepositional phrase (EATING)
2. to eat = adverbial infinitive phrase
3. at the end = adverbial prepositional phrase

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1. of an industrial food chain = adjectival prepositional phrase (END)
2. to go = nominal infinitive phrase (subject)
3. from the chicken = adverbial prepositional phrase
4. to the Chicken McNugget = adverbial prepositional phrase
5. to leave = nominal infinitive phrase (subject complement of TO GO)

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1. in a journey = adjectival prepositional phrase (TO LEAVE)
2. of forgetting = adjectival prepositional phrase (JOURNEY)
3. forgetting = nominal gerund phrase (object of the preposition OF)
4. in terms = adverbial prepositional phrase
5. of the animal’s pain = adjectival prepositional phrase (PAIN)

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1. in our pleasure = adverbial prepositional phrase
2. on the far side = adverbial prepositional phrase
3. of the increasingly high walls = adjectival prepositional phrase (SIDE)

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1. of our industrial agriculture = adjectival prepositonal phrase (WALLS)
2. knowing the high cost of our food chain = adverbial present participle phrase

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1. of our food chain = adjectival prepositonal phrase
2. in the end = adverbial prepositional phrase
3. about the pleasures = adjectival prepositional phrase (subject complement)
4. of eating = adjectival prepositional phrase (PLEASURES)
5. eating = nominal gerund phrase (object of the preposition OF)
6. of pleasure = adjectival prepositional phrase (KINDS)

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1. deepened = adjectival past participle (PLEASURES)
2. by knowing = adverbial prepositional phrase
3. knowing = nominal gerund phrase (object of the preposition BY)