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B. a group of reckless children and teenagers
General rules for changing direct speech into indirect speech. Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks. End the sentence with a full stop. If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.
The participle in this sentence is "sweating". It's a participle of the verb " to sweat" and it's a present participle: which we know because it ends with an -ing (past participles end with "-ed).
Expressing the word bored without using the word bored means to have nothing to do, there is no excitement, or any emotions and you are sitting thinking of what to do