Hearing the footsteps of its owner The cat jumped down from the kitchen countertop which word does the particle phrase modify

Verified Answer :

A
sentence basically has a subject, the object of the sentence or doer of the
action and predicate, the verb, the adjective, etc. A phrase is a group of
words that is also a dependent clause.

 

In the sentence:

Hearing the footsteps of its owner, the cat jumped
down from the kitchen countertop.

 

The phrase is:

Hearing the footsteps of its owner

 

The word is:

Cat