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    Participle Clauses

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    This document discusses participle clauses and how they can be used to combine sentences. It provides examples of sentences with relative clauses that can be rewritten as participle clauses by removing the relative pronoun and changing the verb to a present or past participle. Participle clauses function as shortened relative clauses to give more information about a noun, and can replace both active and passive verbs. The document demonstrates rewriting several sentences using participle clauses and provides practice exercises for the reader.

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    This document discusses participle clauses and how they can be used to combine sentences. It provides examples of sentences with relative clauses that can be rewritten as participle clauses by removing the relative pronoun and changing the verb to a present or past participle. Participle clauses function as shortened relative clauses to give more information about a noun, and can replace both active and passive verbs. The document demonstrates rewriting several sentences using participle clauses and provides practice exercises for the reader.

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    This document discusses participle clauses and how they can be used to combine sentences. It provides examples of sentences with relative clauses that can be rewritten as participle clauses by removing the relative pronoun and changing the verb to a present or past participle. Participle clauses function as shortened relative clauses to give more information about a noun, and can replace both active and passive verbs. The document demonstrates rewriting several sentences using participle clauses and provides practice exercises for the reader.

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    Participle Clauses

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    Moka Vimer
    This document discusses participle clauses and how they can be used to combine sentences. It provides examples of sentences with relative clauses that can be rewritten as participle clauses by removing the relative pronoun and changing the verb to a present or past participle. Participle clauses function as shortened relative clauses to give more information about a noun, and can replace both active and passive verbs. The document demonstrates rewriting several sentences using participle clauses and provides practice exercises for the reader.

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    By Miss Poly

    Compare these sentences


    The girl wearing a red t-shirt was my sister.
    The girl who was wearing a red t-shirt

    was my sister.

    We saw a movie based on an awesome book .

    We saw a movie which was based on an awesome

    book.

    The picture, which was painted by Georges

    Seurat, is called Sunday afternoon on the

    island of La Grande Jatte.

    The picture, painted by Georges Seurat, is

    called Sunday afternoon on the island of La

    Grande Jatte.

    Use
    We use

    information about a noun.

    participle clauses to give more

    They can be described as

    SHORTENED RELATIVE CLAUSES


    Defining relative clauses Non-Defining relative clauses

    PARTICIPLE CLAUSES

    They dont include a relative pronoun

    PRESENT PARTICIPLE

    PAST PARTICIPLE

    The girl SHOWING her hand

    Replaces an active verb

    The programme SHOWN on TV

    Replaces a passive verb

    Examples
    He knows the man talking on the phone.

    The man is talking on the phone / active verb

    The old house, built in 1720, will be repaired

    by the end of October.


    Someone built that old house / passive verb The house WAS BUILT by someone.

    Combine the two sentences using a participle clause


    the background. (d)

    You can see Velazquez in this painting. He is standing in

    The sculpture represents the biblical King David. It was

    carved in the early 1500s. (n-d)

    Cats is one of the longest-running musicals in Britain. It

    was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

    The Matrix was released in 1999. It stars Keanu Reeves. An exhibition has been extended by a month. It features

    works by M C Escher.

    The play is about social justice. It was written by Bertolt

    Brecht.

    Answer key
    You can see Velazquez standing in the background in this

    painting.

    The sculpture, carved in the early 1500s, represents the

    biblical King David.

    Cats, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is one of the

    longest-running musicals in Britain.

    The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, was released in 1999.

    The exhibition featuring works by M C Escher has been

    extended by a month.

    The play, written by Bertolt Brecht, is about social justice.

    Rewrite the relative clauses as participle phrases.


    He played a piano that belonged to his

    grandmother.

    The novel, which was written by Edgar Allan

    Poe, was very long.


    of the band.

    The man who is singing today is not the vocalist The documents which were given to the boss

    were not autentic.

    For extra practice go to your workbook, page 85.

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