Question

. Read the sentence. Loosened rocks may tumble down canyons when it is raining heavily. Which word in the sentence is a participle? loosened down raining tumble

Answer 1

the answer should be down if that helps at all.

Answer 2

loosened

Step-by-step explanation:

A participle is a verbal type acting as an adjective in a sentence. There are two types of participles: the present participle, which ends in -ing, like winning, and the past participle which is formed from the past tense of a verb, and therefore they usually have the endings -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n, such as swollen and broken.

In the sentence, “loosened” is a participle because it works as an adjective describing or giving more information about the noun “rocks.” Furthermore, it is a past participle because it is formed from the past tense of the verb “loose.”