The sentence "Mateo will only eat cooked carrots" contains a participle functioning as a verb.
The sentence "Mateo will only eat cooked carrots" contains a participle functioning as a verb. To identify sentences with participles, you need to look for words that end in "-ed" or "-ing" and determine whether they are functioning as verbs or adjectives. In this case, "cooked" is a past participle and is being used as the main verb in the sentence to describe the action of eating.