Participle Clauses By Mr Gaviria Participle clauses Use

Participle Clauses By Mr. Gaviria

Participle clauses Use participle clauses (clauses that start with a present or past participle) to vary your style or to include more information in a single sentence. Present: working Past: worked

Present participle �The present participle (-ing form) has an active meaning. �Seeing see her across the room, he went to speak to her. = he saw her (active)

Past participle �The past participle has a passive meaning. �The film, directed direct by Miyakazi, won an award for animation. = which was directed (passive)

Use participle clauses: 1. As an alternative to relative clauses. Omit the relative pronoun and any auxiliary verbs.

�The children came home soaked �The children in the rainstorm came home soaked.

�Do you know that man in the corner? ?

�Anyone will be arrested. �Anyone be arrested a photograph will

2. �To give reason for something. �Knowing how unsafe the area was, he decided to stay indoors.

3. �To create longer, more complex sentences. This is used particularly in writing when two actions happen at the same time and have the same subject. �He sat at the lakeside, surrounded by trees, writing a letter and thinking of his childhood

�Use the present participle to replace simple and continuous verbs.

Complete 1. Walk__ into the room, he was stunned to see Julia wait__ at the table 2. The guests stood around, chat__ loudly, notic__ the strange noises outside.

Complete 3. Hid__ by the branches of a tree, the boy was able to spy on his friends. 4. The large number of people wait__ outside meant the doctor would be working late that night.

Complete 5. I knew two people injur__ in the fire. 6. Disgust__ with his team’s defeat, he spent the next week watch__ the video of the match.