Participle Clauses — Why Experts Explain Badly
Grammar: Participle clauses and reduced relative clauses in professional explanation
Free ESL grammar exercise on participle clauses themed around why experts explain badly. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising participle clauses and reduced relative clauses in professional explanation. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Economists later called this the curse of knowledge. Having learned something, we struggle to imagine not knowing it. Leaders who ignore it send memos filled with internal jargon, and employees, confused by acronyms, simply stop reading.
Grammar
- Present participle clause
- Employees reading the memo stopped. — active, same time
- Past participle clause
- Leaders confused by jargon lose staff. — passive meaning
Sample items
- ______ the topic well, Ana forgot her audience did not. (know)
- ______ the data, the analyst wrote her report. (review)
- Staff ______ by acronyms stop reading. (confuse)
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