Question

Identify the part of speech underlined in the following sentence:

When she returned Sunday morning, she found the gate to the backyard ajar, the screen cut on a door, and broken glass on the floor just inside.

Answer 1

The part of speech is a verb.

Step-by-step explanation:

The underlined word is "found", so in order to determine this, you have to start off with finding the subject/noun in the sentence. The subject is the word "she". Now you ask yourself, 'What is she doing/ What did she do?' She found. This is how you know it's your verb/predicate.