How does the word "voting" function in the clause "I participate in the 
voting process every four years"?

My first thought was that it is a participle. "Voting" appears to be a 
verb acting like an adjective, modifying "process." But the subject of a 
participle is the word it modifies, and "process" is not the subject 
of "voting."  

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Thanks,
Nancy 

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