Which word in the sentence is the participle?
around the year 1500, leonardo da vinci, a great inventor and painter, designed plans for a flying machine, but it was never built.
a. flying
b. plans
c. machine
d. inventor

Why does the narrator of the war of the worlds use such precise and scientific language? o a. to make the reader question the narrator's intelligence o o b. to establish the story's credibility o c. to explain the story from the martians' point of view o d. to show that the narrator is an average person