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Question
Write two present participles, in which the last letter of the main word is doubled.
For example, stopping
Solution
blogging, rubbing, planning, hitting etc.
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Find the sentence in the lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their meaning.
plunge in - speak or write without focus
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stay in - go straight to the topic
Notice the highlighted words in the following sentences.
1. “When I leave,’ Sophie said, coming home from school, “I’m going to have a boutique.”
2. Jansie, linking arms with her along the street, looked doubtful.
3. “I’ll find it,” Sophie said, staring far down the street.
4. Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy.
5. And she turned in through the open street door leaving Jansie standing in the rain.
– When we add “ing” to a verb we get the present participle form. The present participle form is generally used along with forms of “be’, (is, was, are, were, am) to indicate the continuous tense as in “Sophie was coming home from school.”
– We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb, when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.
– In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.
– What Sophie was doing while she was “saying” is indicated by “coming home from school”. So we get the information of two actions happening at the same time. We convey the information in one sentence instead of two.
I. Analyse the other examples in the same way.
II. Pick out five other sentences from the story in which present participles are used in this sense.
Fill in the blank in the sentence given below choosing the most appropriate option from the one that follows.
Effective speaking ______________on effective listening.
Say whether the Verbs underlined in the sentence is finite (limited by the number or person of the subject) or non-finite (not governed by the subject, number, or person).
‘‘Forgive me.’’
Pick out the infinitives/ gerunds/ participles from the following sentence and state what one is.
Playing a sitar is Arjun’s hobby.
Find Verb forms of:-
improvement ____________
Pick out from the text the VERB form of
decisions _______________
Pick out from the text the VERB form of
practice _______________
The climate control comment by an activist ______ on social media yesterday.
