In the tell tale heart What is happening to the
narrator
What does he think he
hears? What's your explana-
tion for the sound he hears?

Doesn't he think that he hears the heart beating under the floor board?

Because he hears this faint beating leaving him to be paranoid that the cops know that he hid that guy under there.

The answer is option D (Weeping for hours in bed is how I spent my day, broken after a long, sad week).

In a gerund phrase, the head is a verb that ends in ING. This type of phrase can fulfill all the functions of a noun. For example, in this particular case, "weeping" is the head of the subject.

A participial phrase looks like a verb but it is an adjective since it modifies a noun. In this case, the participial phrase is "broken after..."