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What is the participle in this sentence?

The idling engine sounds fine, but it was pinging before.
a. idling
b. was pinging
c. fine
d. sounds

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The participle in the sentence "idling".

Idling is the verbal form that can be used as an adjective.

The verb here is "idle", and you could use instead a real adjective in the same place: the blue engine.
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