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Which word in the sentence is the participle?

Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, a great inventor and painter, designed plans for a flying machine, but it was never built.
a. flying
b. plans
c. machine
d. inventor

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A participle has the following form: verb + -ing, and the only word in this sentence that takes that form is A, 'flying', which is the correct answer. 
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