What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence and the word it modifies

The captain slipped on the wet deck.

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.

A hypothesis which appears to be verified by multiple experiments and/or researchers may become a law, theory, objective, or hypothesis?

According to advice manuals, poetry, and middle-class journals, middle-class wives and mothers were supposed to occupy a "separate sphere" of life, in which they lived in subordination to their spouses. 1. True2. False

What is Patrick Maloney referring to when he says "I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you" in the story, "Lamb to the Slaughter"?

What is a synecdoche and what would be a clear example of it?

What does this excerpt suggest? O As an adult, Wright has a strong positive regard for his father and wants to get to know him. O As an adult, Wright believes he will never fully accept the way his father treated him.

Which statement is an opinion? The Yankees are the best baseball team in history, Yankee stadium sells got dogs, Babe Ruth played for the Yankees or the Yankees play in the greater New York City area.

Garrett was proud of his note-taking skills until he took a test on the Civil War in history class. He did very poorly even though he had written down everything the teacher said.

How do you account for the speakers silence at the end of i sit and look out by Whitman?

How do you painlessly blind yourself overnight ... P. S I'm writing a story about a girl that makes herself go blind overnight.