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    The document provides 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in with participle clauses. The blanks require participial phrases that maintain the same meaning as the original sentences, which describe situations involving sleeping in the garden and not hearing the phone, a man not finding a job after prison, failing an exam and not getting into university, being happy to stay in after being out all day, a man being popular despite frequent criticism for being self-centered, a woman shoplifting for years before getting caught, having plenty of time to spare and looking around town, a boy turning to stealing after being abandoned by parents at a young age, and spending a summer testing boards on glaciers. The final sentence instructs rebuilding houses destroyed in a storm

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    The document provides 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in with participle clauses. The blanks require participial phrases that maintain the same meaning as the original sentences, which describe situations involving sleeping in the garden and not hearing the phone, a man not finding a job after prison, failing an exam and not getting into university, being happy to stay in after being out all day, a man being popular despite frequent criticism for being self-centered, a woman shoplifting for years before getting caught, having plenty of time to spare and looking around town, a boy turning to stealing after being abandoned by parents at a young age, and spending a summer testing boards on glaciers. The final sentence instructs rebuilding houses destroyed in a storm

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    Participle - Exercise 2

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    The document provides 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in with participle clauses. The blanks require participial phrases that maintain the same meaning as the original sentences, which describe situations involving sleeping in the garden and not hearing the phone, a man not finding a job after prison, failing an exam and not getting into university, being happy to stay in after being out all day, a man being popular despite frequent criticism for being self-centered, a woman shoplifting for years before getting caught, having plenty of time to spare and looking around town, a boy turning to stealing after being abandoned by parents at a young age, and spending a summer testing boards on glaciers. The final sentence instructs rebuilding houses destroyed in a storm

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    PARTICIPLE

    Write sentences with participle clauses that have the same meanings as the following
    1. I slept in the garden and didn't hear the telephone.
    2. After he was released from prison, Andy could not find a job anywhere.
    3. I had failed one of my exams so I couldn't get into university.
    4. I had been out all day so I was quite happy to stay in for the evening.
    5. He was frequently criticised for his self-centred attitude but was nonetheless very popular.
    6. Mary had been shoplifting for many years before she was found out.
    7. I had plenty of time to spare so I had a good look round the town.
    8. Peter was abandoned by his parents at an early age and took to stealing.
    9. John spent the summer of 1990 in Europe. He was testing his boards on Austrian glaciers.
    10. We should help to rebuild houses destroyed by the storm.

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