Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the part of speech of the word in bold letter.

The dogs are caged at night.

  1. noun

  2. adjective

  3. adverb

  4. verb

  5. preposition
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Explanation

In the sentence 'The dogs are caged at night,' the word 'caged' is a past participle form of the verb 'to cage' functioning as part of the passive voice construction 'are caged.' It describes what action is being done to the dogs. Therefore, 'caged' is functioning as a verb (past participle) in this context.

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