What is one sentence starter you can use to make sure you include evidence from the text in your written response?

Alright, so amongst starters, you have a few you can use to show you'll have evidence:
According to text
According to the passage
According to the information provided
As the information shows
As the text mentioned, (include direct quote here)
Based on the information in the passage/text, (include reasoning here)
Etc. There are quite a few options, really, these are just a few. Based on whatever you are providing the information ON, the words information, text, and passage can be changed to suit your needs, such as article, newspaper, website, etc.

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..."