What part of speech is the bold word in the sentence below? Exhausted and breathless, Charlie navigated the wooded path, desperate to avoid capture.

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What part of speech is the bold word in the sentence below?

Exhausted and breathless, Charlie navigated the wooded path, desperate to avoid capture.

a. verb  

b. adverb  

c. adjective

d. noun

The bold word "navigated" is a:

a. verb

Explanation:

A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state. Verbs are part of the predicate, and they help introduce information about the subject of the sentence. Verbs must agree with the subject they refer to, that is, the verb will be singular or plural depending on what the subject is. Examples of verbs are: to go, to try, to sleep, to dance, to forgo, to awake, to eat, etc.

In the sentence above, the word "navigated" is a verb that expresses action. It is conjugated in the past form to indicate that the action started and finished at a specific time in the past.