Jim and Huck find the house to be a mess, and find whiskey, playing cards, and obscene graffiti (symbolizing human vices). Most importantly, they find the body of Huck's murdered father, who was shot in the back. Jim makes sure Huck doesn't see his face, so Huck doesn't know that his father was killed.
The house Jim and Huck find is floating down the river, which is unusual because houses are typically stationary structures on land.
'Floating' is the gerund. Therefore the gerund phrase is 'Floating down the river on a raft'.
what is the gerund phrase in this sentence, Floating down the river on a raft was not Joel's idea of fun.
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A used Condom Floating down the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh
Jim and Huck find the house to be a mess, and find whiskey, playing cards, and obscene graffiti (symbolizing human vices). Most importantly, they find the body of Huck's murdered father, who was shot in the back. Jim makes sure Huck doesn't see his face, so Huck doesn't know that his father was killed.
In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck's father dies. Jim finds him when he and Huck are floating down the river on a raft. They find a floating house and inside Jim find the dead body of Huck's father.
Key to their adventure was finding a large Raft. At oher times in the story they found other objects like wrecked steam boat, a canoe and a house.
It was a wreathe that people normally put in the river after somebody dies.