Analyze the following sentences to see determine which sentence best uses a participle to show character:

a. smiling, she hugged her brother.
b. tears streaming, she embraced her brother who just returned from war.
c. ultimately, her brother returned home from the war.
d. she missed her brother desperately, and she often cried when she thought of him so far away.

A participle is a word that takes the form of a verb but functions either as an adjective or a noun. The sentence that uses a participle is option A. Already looking forward to the next Carnival, the masquerader began the next year's costume. The participle that is being used in this sentence is the word "looking" taking the present participle form

Explanation:

B. Tears streaming...

Explanation:

A was incorrect on the lesson.

answer: "the beating heart symbolizes the narrator's conscience, or his sense of guilt and wrongdoing" so its b

explanation:

"to look at him, or hear him describe it, he had no guilt. however, poe decided to symbolize this man's subconscious guilt through the heartbeat."