alleryIdentify the part of speech of 'tempting' in: 'It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles.'
AAdverb
BVerb (present participle)
CAdjective (gerund-like attributive)
DNoun
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Adjective (gerund-like attributive)
Here 'tempting' modifies 'all' (the outdoors).
It functions as a predicative adjective ('It was tempting').
The form is participial in origin, but in this syntactic role it is adjectival.
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