Identify the participle in the sentence below.
"Billy loves to go swimming in his tattered old swim trunks."
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swimming
swimming
tattered
tattered
old
old
Identify the underlined word in the sentence below as a preposition or an adverb.
"He squealed as his sled raced down."
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preposition
preposition
adverb
The participle in the sentence is "swimming."
The participle in the sentence is "swimming".
To identify the participle, you can look for a verb form that ends in "-ing" and is used to modify a noun. In this sentence, "swimming" is a present participle that describes what Billy loves to do.