Question

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. plans B. inventor C. flying D. machine

Answer 1

C.

Just a tip: generally, present-tense participles end with -ing. Remember, participles are adjectives that directly modify a noun. So in a phrase like "We need to wait for the flashing light to stop blinking." the participle would be 'flashing'.

Answer 2

In this case, 'flying' modifies 'machine'. It's not just a machine, it's a flying machine. What is the machine doing? Flying. It's hard to explain. Participles are kind of like verb-adjectives.