Given this sentence, predict the part of speech of the word “groomed”

He groomed the puppy until it was perfectly clean
The word “groomed” in this sentence is a verb.
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### Instruction:
Given this sentence, predict the part of speech of the word “groomed”

He groomed the puppy until it was perfectly clean

### Response:
The word “groomed” in this sentence is a verb.