Question

What is/are the present participle(s) of the following sentence?: Everyone expected the crawling tortoise to lose the race to the hopping hare.

Answer 1

Answer:

crawling  and  hopping

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Explanation:

Participles can either be in the past or present.

All present participles end in ing.

For the given sentence:

⇒ Everyone expected the " crawl ing"  tortoise to lose the race to the " hopp ing " hare

The present participles are both used as adjectives.

"crawling" is the present participle form of the verb "to crawl"

and

"hopping" is the present participle form of the verb "to hp".

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