Identify the type of verbal and its function in the following sentence.

i recall participating in a chess tournament.

verbal:
gerund
infinitive
participle

function:
object of a preposition
subject
predicate noun
adverb
direct object
adjetive

Verbal: gerund.

Function: direct object.

Explanation:

Verbals are verbs which function as nouns or adjectives. Gerunds (-ing termination) are used as nouns to the main verb. In this case, participating is the noun to the main verb recall. The function of this verbal is a direct object, because it is the thing being acted on by the verb. Participating in a chess tournament is what "receives" the action of the main verb.

expository writing is one of the most common types of writing.

for this case, we must find the number of deaths per day of the year 2015, in automobile accidents, knowing that 32,400 people died.

knowing that the year 2015 had 365 days we have the following division:

where "x" represents the number of deaths per day.

rounding off we have:

approximately, 89 people per day died in 2015

answer:

89 people per day