I looked this question up online, and this is the complete question that I found:
What part of speech is the bold word in the sentence below?
Exhausted and breathless, Charlie navigated the wooded path, desperate to avoid capture.
a. verb
b. adverb
c. adjective
d. noun
Answer:
The bold word "navigated" is a:
a. verb
Explanation:
A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state. Verbs are part of the predicate, and they help introduce information about the subject of the sentence. Verbs must agree with the subject they refer to, that is, the verb will be singular or plural depending on what the subject is. Examples of verbs are: to go, to try, to sleep, to dance, to forgo, to awake, to eat, etc.
In the sentence above, the word "navigated" is a verb that expresses action. It is conjugated in the past form to indicate that the action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
The answer to the question is A. "Doing so would make Okonkwo just like the father he has always hated."
Answer:
Explanation:
Basically what you need to do:
if it ends in an s the plural is es
if it ends in something other than an s the plural is an s
if it ends in a y or an i, you need to change them to an s
and # 20 is surroundings
Expository writing is meant to inform a reader about a certain topic. Because of this, D is the correct answer.
