English Practice exercises - identifying -ing (participle) clauses: P5-10W

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 1. Smiled broadly he invited me to taste the wine from his vineyard.

 

2. The boy sat looked out of the window wondered what there was for tea.

 

3. We drove into the village and rounded a corner there in front of us was the house.

 

4. Showed her to her room the landlady chatted cheerfully about this and that.

 

5. She danced beautifully avoided his eyes but allowed him to hold her close.

 

6. Waited in the rain I wondered if the bus would ever come.

 

7. Caught in the traffic John sang loudly to himself beat time with his fingers on the steering wheel.

 

8. Margaret finished grating the last carrot and added a little olive oil and lemon pronounced the salad and the meal ready.

 

9. They picked the cherries made sure only to take the ripest ones.

 

10. I decided to shut the shop anticipated that there would be no further customers that day considered the rain and the fact that night was already falling.

 

11. Decided to shut the shop I locked the till took care to transfer the day’s takings to the big green safe embedded in the concrete floor.

 

12. For a long time the painter stared at the sky tried to really see what colour it actually was.

 

13. Slid elegantly out of the limousine the actress straightened up then flashed a big smile at the waiting journalists.

 

14. Slid elegantly out of the limousine the actress straightened up before flashed a big smile at the waiting journalists.

 

15.  Once out of the limousine straightened up the actress flashed a big smile at the waiting journalists.