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The document provides examples of using active participles (-ing form verbs) to form relative clauses and adverbial clauses. It contains 4 tasks that demonstrate rewriting sentences to begin with active participles. The tasks include defining terms with participles, writing news items as single sentences using participles, rewriting sentences about a detective with participles, and matching sentence halves and joining with participles. The document is an exercise in grammar practice using participles to form different clause types in English.

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Ing Forms - Exercises

The document provides examples of using active participles (-ing form verbs) to form relative clauses and adverbial clauses. It contains 4 tasks that demonstrate rewriting sentences to begin with active participles. The tasks include defining terms with participles, writing news items as single sentences using participles, rewriting sentences about a detective with participles, and matching sentence halves and joining with participles. The document is an exercise in grammar practice using participles to form different clause types in English.

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Relative clauses with a participle

Task 1) Complete the definitions. Put in an active participle (-ing form) of these verbs:

arrive, block, travel, tell, watch

A competitor is someone taking part in a competition.


1 A latecomer is a person.................................. late.
2 An instruction is a statement…………………… ...you what to do.
3 A spectator is someone ……………………… a game or an event.
4 A commuter is a person …………………….. to work.
5 An obstacle is something .……………………..your way.

Task 2) Write each news item as one sentence. Change the part in brackets into a clause
with an active participle (e.g. costing).
A new motorway is planned. (It will cost £500 million.)
A new motorway costing £500 million is planned.
1 Families have been evicted. (They were living in an empty office building.)
Families .........................................................................................................................
2 A chemical company has gone bankrupt. (It employed 4,000 people.)
A chemical company...............................................................................
3 People have marched to London. (They are protesting against pollution.)

4 Tennis fans have been queuing all night at Wimbledon. (They hope to buy tickets.)

5 A truck was detoured. (It carried heavy load).

(adapted from Oxford Practice Grammar with Answers, p. 343)

Adverbial clauses with a participle


Task 3) Rewrite the sentences about a detective. Begin with an ing-form, e.g. doing or having
done.
Mitchell picked up the phone and dialled a number. He let it ring for five long minutes and
then slowly replaced the receiver. He took a gun out of the drawer and put it in his briefcase.
He left the office and then had to wait a while for the lift. He reached the ground floor and
hurried outside to a taxi. The taxi driver pulled out a gun and shot Mitchell.
Picking up the phone, Mitchell dialled a number.
Having let it ring for five long minutes, he slowly replaced the receiver.
1 ....................................................................................................................................................
2 …………………………………………………………………………………………………
3 …………………………………………………………………………………………………
4 ………….……………………………………………………………………………………...

Task 4) Match the two parts and join them using an ing-form, e.g. doing or having done.
Because she didn't want to be late, Harriet turned on the heating.
As she had worked hard all day, Andrew took it back to the library.
1 Because he had studied the map, Daniel found it hard to communicate.
2 She felt cold, so Vicky ran to the bus stop.
3 Because he didn't know French, Trevor knew which way to go.
4 He had finished the book, so Sarah was exhausted.

Not wanting to be late, Vicky ran to the bus stop.


Having worked hard all day, Sarah was exhausted.
1 ....................................................................................................................................................
2 ....................................................................................................................................................
3 …………………………………………………………………………………………………
4 …………………………………………………………………………………………………
(Oxford Practice Grammar with Answers, p. 177)

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