Question

Identify the participle in the sentence below.
"Billy loves to go swimming in his tattered old swimming trunks."

swimming
tattered
old
GPT 3.5
The participle in the sentence is "swimming."
In the sentence, "He squealed as his sled raced down", is the word down a preposition or an adverb?
GPT 3.5
In the sentence "He squealed as his sled raced down," the word "down" is an adverb. It modifies the verb "raced" and describes the direction in which the sled is moving.