Grammar: participle clauses

Grammar: participle clauses

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1. Grammar explanation

2. Informative video

3. Useful exercise

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Grammar explanation

A participle clause is a dependent clause which uses a participle form of a verb. These clauses are used to avoid making sentences overly complicated. They are used mainly in written English and they allow us to convey a great deal of information in a shorter form.

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Informative Video

Here we hand you a very useful video related to participle clauses. Enjoy!

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Useful exercise

Now you are gonna practice with some exercises. Click start to begin and remember, if you don't get them right at first you can always go back and retry as many times as you need. Good luck!

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_________ you don't like seafood, I've cooked some chicken too.

A. Having known

c. Known

b. Knowing

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_________ her work, I'm sure she'll do a good job.

A. Having seen

c. being seen

b. seen

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_________ the book, I can't really give you an opinion.

A. not having read

c. Haven't reading

b. Not reading

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Who is that woman over there __________________ to Steven?

A. Having talked

c. talking

b. talked

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Several old cars, __________________ by their owners, lay rusting in the grass.

A. Having abandoned

c. abandoning

b. Abandoned

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We actually don't know wether you did amazing or horrible in these exercicese so actually you can go directly to the last slide or go through them once more. You can also watch the video for some tips if you want.

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