Which sentence contains a present participle ? A.)Running marathons is my hobby. B.)My nose was running. C.)The running girl left the others in the dust. D.)She gave everyone a run for their money. E.) Run for your life!

The correct answer is C.) The running girl left the others in the dust.

Explanation:

In grammar, a participle refers to a word that derives from a verb but acts as an adjective, which means it describes nouns or pronouns. Moreover, participles can be classified into present participles if they end in -ing or past participles if they end in -ed or have the same grammatical form that verb in past.

This implies, in the case of the verb "run" the present participle is "running" and the sentence in which this is used as a present participle is "The running girl left the others in the dust" because in this the word "running" acts as an adjective by describing the noun "girl" and this is the main function of a participle.

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