Participle clauses

What do participle clauses END with?

• infinitive

• -ing

• infinitive without to

• -ed

.................through the window, the little boy saw a stranger.

• Look

• To look

• Looking

• Looked

Participle clauses can be used to ....................

• explain the reason for something

• to follow a preposition

• talk about an action happening at the same time

• to replace some relative clauses

• when one action happens AFTER another action

Made to wait, I started to get annoyed. Tick the correct usage of this particle clause.

• to explain the reason

• as an alternative passive form

• to talk about actions happening at the same time

• to follow a preposition

...............the start of the film, we decided not to watch the rest of it.

• Missing

• Missed

• Having missed

• To miss

.................quite good at Maths, he gets high scores in any Math test.

• To be

• Having been

• Been

• Being

The boy threw a stone, .................the window.

• break

• to break

• broken

• breaking

..................the door, she rushed to the car.

• Close

• Closing

• To close

• Closed

...............to the city before, Jane feels confident and comfortable.

• Being

• To be

• Been

• Having been

Tick the correct sentence

• Not wishing to boast, she said nothing about her success.

• Wishing not to boast, she said nothing about her success.

• Wishing to not boast, she said nothing about her success.

• Not wish to boast, she said nothing about her success.