Participles (Grammar Drills)
doing - active simultaneous with a predicate action
being done - passive simultaneous with a predicate action
having done - active prior to a predicate action
having been done - passive prior to a predicate action
done/ed - passive finished attribute
Turn the following participles into subordinate clauses.
Example:
Knowing that he was poor, I offered to pay forhis lunch.
As I knew that he was poor, I offered to pay forhis lunch.
- Having been offered to pay for his lunch, he felt tears coming into his eyes.
- Having barricaded the windows, we assembled in the hall waiting for another attack..
- Having got tired of my complaints about the news report, she turned it off.
- Having found no one at home, he left the house right away.
- Hoping to find the hidden money, she searched everywhere.
- Having removed all the traces of his crime, the robber left the building.
- Having missed the last train, the woman began to walk.
- Being exhausted by his work, he threw himself on his bed to kick back and relax.
- Having been asked for a job several times, his father agreed at last.
- Having escaped from prison, he looked for a shelterto get food and bed.
- Not desiring to hear what she had heard before, she covered her ears with her hands.
- Having found the money, they began quarrellings about how to divide it.
- Entering the room suddenly, mother found her teens smoking.
- Being astonished at what I saw, I could not help crying.
- Having been visited unexpectedly, we decidednot to lay the table and to have lunch in the park.
- Being offered to show the way home, we were glad as we thought we were lost.
- Having found his revolver and loaded it, he could not move sitting down facing the door.
- Having realized that she couldn't move the wardrobe alone, she asked a neighbor to help her.
- Having fed the dog, he sat down to his own dinner.
- Having been fed the dog started yelping quietly.
- Having made a mistake, he went through his calculations again.
- Looking through the fashion magazines, she was surprised how dramatically styles are changing.
- The tree had fallen across the road, having been uprooted by the gale.
- The sleeping people were wakened by the sound of breaking glass.
- Having been awakened by the whining sound of the siren, she rushed to the window to see what had happened.
- Knowing that the murderer was still at large, I was extremely reluctant to open the door.
- Having stolen the jewelry, he looked for a place to hide it.
- We were soaked to the skin, having eventually reached the station.
- The coffee came in, ready poured out in two cups.
- We did not find many people assembled there.
- In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet.
- Preceded by the croupier, we passed along some passages.
- Badly designed lighting can pose a threat to wildlife as well as people.
- Sitting in the front row and using opera glasses, I saw everything beautifully.
- One evening sitting by the fire, you will remember this moment.
- Knowing that there were ants in the grass, I spread a plastic bag on the grass to sit down.
- Being believed she went on lying bluntly.
- Slates being ripped off by the gale, fell on people passing below.
- Having found his cage door open, seeing no sign of his keeper, the lion left the cage and walked slowly towardsthe zoo entrance.
- The government having once tried to tax people according to the size of their houses went on to put an absurd tax on windows.
- Having heard that the caves were dangerous, I didn't like to go any further without a light.
- Wearing extremely fashionable clothes and being surrounded by photographers and pressmen, she swept up to themicrophone to deliver her lachrymose speech.