{"id":73991,"date":"2020-04-14T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73991"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:32:57","slug":"how-to-join-two-sentences-with-a-present-participle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-join-two-sentences-with-a-present-participle\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Join Two Sentences With A Present Participle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Joining two sentences with a present participle<\/h3>\n<p>Consider the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The thief\u00a0<b>cut through<\/b>\u00a0the padlock. He opened the wooden door.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cutting through\u00a0<\/b>the padlock, the thief opened the door.<\/li>\n<li>The pilot\u00a0<b>banked sharply.\u00a0<\/b>She managed to avoid the buildings.<\/li>\n<li><b>Banking sharply,\u00a0<\/b>the pilot managed to avoid the buildings.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>disguised\u00a0<\/b>himself as a cleaner. He entered the bank.<\/li>\n<li><b>Disguising\u00a0<\/b>himself as a cleaner he entered the bank.<\/li>\n<li>She<b>\u00a0drove as quickly as possible.\u00a0<\/b>She arrived just in time.<\/li>\n<li><b>Driving as quickly as possible,\u00a0<\/b>she arrived just in time.<\/li>\n<li>The lightning<b>\u00a0flashed vividly.\u00a0<\/b>It struck the church steeple.<\/li>\n<li><b>Flashing vividly,\u00a0<\/b>the lightning struck the church steeple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Joining two sentences with a past participle<\/h3>\n<p>Consider the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The car was\u00a0<b>damaged\u00a0<\/b>in the accident. It needed a new door.<\/li>\n<li><b>Damaged\u00a0<\/b>in the accident, the car needed a new door.<\/li>\n<li>The boat was\u00a0<b>tossed up and down<\/b>. It developed a leak.<\/li>\n<li>Tossed up and down, the boat developed a leak.<\/li>\n<li>I was\u00a0<b>impressed\u00a0<\/b>by the team. I stayed for the whole match.<\/li>\n<li>Impressed by the team, I stayed for the whole match.<\/li>\n<li>She was\u00a0<b>pleased\u00a0<\/b>with her present. She gave him a hug.<\/li>\n<li><b>Pleased\u00a0<\/b>with her present, she gave him a hug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining two sentences with a present participle Consider the examples given below. The thief\u00a0cut through\u00a0the padlock. He opened the wooden door. Cutting through\u00a0the padlock, the thief opened the door. The pilot\u00a0banked sharply.\u00a0She managed to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1558,2486],"class_list":["post-73991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-present-participle","tag-sentence-synthesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73992,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73991\/revisions\/73992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}