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Participle Clauses — The Weekend Spotify Wrapped Became a Marketing Machine

Grammar: Participle clauses and fronted adverbials in professional storytelling

Free ESL grammar exercise on participle clauses themed around the weekend spotify wrapped became a marketing machine. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Business English ESL grammar exercise on media, practising participle clauses and fronted adverbials in professional storytelling. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Having collected a year of listening data, Spotify turns it into a personal story that users want to share. Launched in 2016 as a modest campaign, it now reaches well over 200 million people in a single week.

Grammar

Present participle clause
Having collected a year of data, Spotify tells your story. — earlier action, then main action
Fronted adverbial
In 2016, Spotify launched a modest campaign. — time first, then the subject

Sample items

  1. ______ a year of data, Spotify builds a personal story. (collect)
  2. ______ for phones, the slides are easy to share. (design)
  3. ______ the format worked, Apple Music copied it. (see)

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