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Identify the italicized word as gerund or participle

The dog, trained to do tricks, entertained the children for an hour.

A.Gerund
B.Participle

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If the underlined word is trained, then it is a B. participle used as an adjective of the sentence. A gerund can only be used as a noun.
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