江苏省连云港灌云县第一中学高中英语必修五：unit2TheEnvironmentGrammarand

Grammar and usage

Verb-ing Form &

Verb-ing Phrases

Do you know any thing about verb- ing form or verb-ing phrases?

Please fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given verbs

1. They burst into laughter when they heard the (amuse) story.

2. Is there any hope of our team ____________ (win) the match?

3. ________ (finish) his composition, he went to have a heart- to- heart talk with his father.

4. ________ (send) to the countryside, he had to leave the city.

5. The building __________ (build) now is our physics lab.

6. When __________ (leave) the airport, they waved again and again to us.

7. ________ (not know) how to give first aid to the

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Please fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the given verbs

8. This same thing, ________ (happen) in the peacetime,

would be a great disaster.

9. The chemical composition of water is H2O5 whether (be)

solid, liquid or vapor.

10. We introduced a lot of advanced equipment, thus (save)

much time and labor.

11 ・ We held a party, _______ (celebrate) the arrival of the

new baby..

12. They sat together, _______ (study) carefully the design of

the new project.

13. Weather ________ (permit), we will go for an outing next

week.

14. We caught the boy _______ (pick) flowers in the garden.

15. _______________________ He is a businessman (grow)

rich in recent years. x , Verb-ins Form ,

Verb-ing forrrrban be used as an adjective or adverb・ It can serve in a sentence as pthe attribute・

V the predicative.

Jthe objective complement.

Serve as the attribute

Attribute is a noun or an adjective that comes

before a noun and describes it.

There is a waiting taxi around the corner. Let's go and take it.

=> There is a taxi which is waiting around the corner. Let' s go and take it.

I like the room facing south.

=> I like the room which is facing south.

Serve as the predicative Predicative is an adj ective that comes after a linking verb.

The story I heard from him yesterday sounded very frightening.

My brother's job is designing new buildinas ・

Serve as the object

complement

An object complement is an adjective or a noun that relates to and describes the objects of a sentence・

He kept me waiting for a long time・

We heard someone singing in the next roo nr

Verb-ing phrase can be a verb-

ing on its own・

There can also be an object and / or adverbial after the verb-ing・ Verb-ing phrases can express the time, the reason, the result, and the condition.

Usually we can change verb-ing phrases into adverbial clauses.