Plz help!! thanks! In the paragraph below, what word is repeatedly used as a participle?
How do you know it’s a participle?

Michael Jordan is a gifted basketball player. Leonardo DiCaprio is a gifted actor. Selena was a gifted singer. Albert Einstein was a gifted scientist. Maya Angelou is a gifted poet. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a gifted speaker and leader. Can people with such disparate talents all be called gifted? They can if you believe there are myriad of ways for people to be smart, just as there are many different types of people.

the right ones are in bold.

daintly refers to the fact she was reaching for what she ate, not necessarily what she is like.

greatest charm as in she possessed (=had) the greatest charm.

pleasant (her demeanor)

speaking (of her sensibility)

dead refers to the hypothetical mouse.

bleeding refers to the hypothetical mouse.

1.c

2.a

3.d

the correct order is:

you're your own worst enemy:

they're going to say what they say, but

their opinions aren't holding you

back. it's your self-defeatist

attitude that's keeping your work

from getting its due.

i believe the answer is b. we