Word Order - Participles

____________________the girl stopped writing and looked up.

• the loud laughter hearing of her friends

• her friends hearing of the loud laughter

• hearing the loud laughter of her friends

• hearing of her loud laughter the friends

____________ I attempted to solve the puzzle.

• all possibilities thinking of

• of all thinking possibilities

• possibilities thinking of all

• thinking of all possibilities

___________________ he entered the hall.

• his uncle talking excitedly to

• talking excitedly to his uncle

• excitedly to talking his uncle

• to his uncle talking excitedly

____________ she wondered whether it was true.

• the long narration of the sob story listening attentively to

• listening attentively to the sob story the long narration of

• listening attentively to the long narration of the sob story

• of the sob story listening attentively to the long narration

__________________ the agent bargained hard with them.

• driven by purely selfish reasons

• purely selfish driven by reasons

• driven by reasons selfish purely

• by purely selfish reasons driven

____________ she wondered why they were behaving in such a manner.

• by their wild outraged accusation

• their wild outraged by accusation

• their wild accusation outraged by

• outraged by their wild accusation

_____________________ the organizers thought of serving them the starters.

• having arrived many guests early enough

• many guests having arrived early enough

• having arrived many guests early enough

• early enough many guests having arrived

___________________ he wanted to stay on till the end of the practice session.

• to the stadium having gone

• gone to the having stadium

• to the having gone stadium

• having gone to the stadium

_________ they couldn't think of returning on the same day.

• travelled quite a long distance having

• a long distance having travelled quite

• having travelled quite a long distance

• having quite a long distance travelled

_________________ they decided to go ahead with their plan.

• under his reply being favorable the given circumstances

• favorable under the given circumstances his reply being

• being favorable his reply under the given circumstances

• his reply being favorable under the given circumstances