Is the underlined word in the sentence a participle or verb. she was laughing at every joke her brother told. laughing is the underlined word

It is in verb tense. She was laughing at every joke her brother told.

She is your subject.

What is she doing? Laughing. That's your verb

Laughing at/to whom or what?

Joke. That is your direct object.

Who had/told the joke? her brother. He is predicate nominative.

Just because it doesn't end with "LY" doesn't mean it's not a verb.

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the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things