Identify the word that best describes the underlined word for the following question.

prepositional phrase

The underlined word "ending" is best described as a participial phrase.

To identify the word that best describes the underlined word, you need to understand the function of the underlined word in the sentence. In this case, the underlined word is "Haiti's."

To determine its function, you can analyze the usage of the word in the context of the sentence. Here, "Haiti's" is used to show possession, specifically indicating that the independence belongs to Haiti.

Based on this analysis, the word that best describes "Haiti's" is a possessive adjective. However, none of the options provided in the responses match this description.

Therefore, it seems that the options provided are not accurate and none of them is the correct answer. Instead, the better answer in this case would be "possessive adjective" to describe the underlined word.