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Strolling tourists fill the streets of Rome. Identify the type of verbal used in the sentence above and the word it modifies. gerund: “tourists” infinitive: “streets” gerund: “Rome” participial: “tourists”

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User Flackou
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D-participial: “tourists”

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User JBxOnline
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The Verbal here is :"strolling" - the only other verbal form here is the inflected verb, "fill".

(so we reject the options:
infinitive: “streets”
participial: “tourists” )

this verbal modifies "tourists": the tourists are strolling - it has a function of an adjective.

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