CHAPTER 7, USING PRESENT AND PAST PARTICIPLES CORRECTLY Page 75

  • EXERCISE

    7A. Practice working with participles. Rewrite the following sentences to
            correct problems with participles, as needed. If e sentence
            is correct, mark it C.

    1. Insulting by the speaker's comments, the audience left.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________

    2. The diet my doctor recommended is not satisfied, but I must
           stick to it if I am to lose weight.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________

    3. The children got exciting when they saw the camels.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________

    4. Always fascinating by Native American cultures, Ramon decided
        to learn Quechua, the language of the Incas.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________

    5. Frustrating by her inability to master algebra, Shara decided to
        take a class teaching by Prof. Gustavo.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________

    6. He finds astrology interested, but he knows that it is only a
        pseudoscience.
           _______________________________________________________
           _______________________________________________________


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