Question

identify the verbal and type from the following sentence: excited by the news, she jumped for joy. excited - gerund jumped - gerund jumped - participle excited - participle question 5 (1 point) what is the function of a participle in a sentence? to express strong emotions or exclamations to describe a noun or a pronoun to act as the subject of the sentence to show the action of the subject

Explanation:

1. In the sentence "Excited by the news, she jumped for joy", "excited" is a past - participle. A gerund is a verb form that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. "Jumped" is the simple past tense of the verb "jump", not a gerund or participle in this context. Participles can be used to modify nouns or pronouns.
2. The function of a participle in a sentence is to describe a noun or a pronoun. It can act as an adjective. It is not used mainly to express strong emotions or exclamations, act as the subject of a sentence, or show the main action of the subject (the main action is shown by the finite verb like "jumped" in the given sentence).

Answer:

1. D. Excited - participle
2. B. to describe a noun or a pronoun