Question

Choose the ‘present participle’ in the sentence. Cleaning the floor, she took rest.​

Answer 1

Answer:

cleaning.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Cleaning the floor, she took rest.​

Present Participle in the given sentence is the word 'Cleaning'. (Note: Here cleaning is 'gerund'. Gerund is an -ing verb form that works the function of a noun.

Explanation:

Present participle is a form of verb that is formed by using –ing with the first form of the verb. For example by adding –ing to eat we can make ‘eating’. Present participles can be used in continuous tenses, as adjectives, or as non-finite verbs.