Participle Clauses — Why Experts Can't Explain Themselves
Grammar: Participle clauses for concise professional description
Free ESL grammar exercise on participle clauses themed around why experts can't explain themselves. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising participle clauses for concise professional description. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Hearing the melody in their heads, the tappers could not believe the listeners heard only taps. Sending a message filled with jargon, an expert is often speaking to nobody at all.
Grammar
- Present participle
- Sending a long email, she lost the reader. — action at the same time
- Perfect participle
- Having read the essay, he changed his plan. — action before the main verb
Sample items
- ______ (see) the audience's confused faces, the speaker slowed down.
- ______ (finish) the draft, she sent it to her manager.
- ______ (write) in plain English, the memo was understood at once.
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