A leading scientist in these fields was Edward Forbes, a British naturalist who lived from 1815 to 1854 What is the function of the underlined participle in the sentence? A. It modifies the noun naturalist It modifies the adjective British It modifies the verb was. D It modifies the noun scientist.

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