Grammar: ⚙️ Verbs in Depth: Mastery (C1) - Lesson 6: Advanced Participle Clauses (Expressing time, reason, result, condition)
Grammar: Advanced Clauses C1 Lesson 6: Advanced Participle Clauses What you will learn: By the end of this lesson, you will be able to recognize and use participle clauses to express logical relationships of reason, time, result, and condition.
Why It Matters: Concise & Sophisticated Writing Using participle clauses allows you to combine ideas in a more concise and sophisticated way, which is a key skill in advanced writing. 🐢 Standard Sentence Because I felt tired , I went to bed early. 🚀 Advanced Sentence with Participle Clause Feeling tired , I went to bed early. Four Logical Relationships 📖 A participle clause can replace a longer clause to show different relationships between ideas. 1. Expressing Reason Replaces clauses starting with 'because' or 'since'. " Feeling tired , I went to bed early." (Because I felt tired...) " Fascinated by the architecture, he took many photos." (Because he was fascinated...) 2. Expressing Time Replaces clauses starting wit…