🌟 Reduced relative clauses
🟡We form reduced relative clauses by omitting the relative pronoun and auxiliary verb that forms the verb tense.
A present participle replaces an active tense.
A lot of the people (who were) sitting at the table were my relatives.
🟡A past participle replaces a passive tense.
The buildings (which were) constructed in the seventies are ugly.
🟡A reduced non-defining relative clause is always written between commas.
The new bus, gleaming in the sun, drove off towards its next stop.
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🟡We form reduced relative clauses by omitting the relative pronoun and auxiliary verb that forms the verb tense.
A present participle replaces an active tense.
A lot of the people (who were) sitting at the table were my relatives.
🟡A past participle replaces a passive tense.
The buildings (which were) constructed in the seventies are ugly.
🟡A reduced non-defining relative clause is always written between commas.
The new bus, gleaming in the sun, drove off towards its next stop.
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🌟 GRAMMAR: ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS
❗️ An absolute participial construction is a phrase that adds extra information to a sentence. It has a noun (or pronoun) and a participle (a verb form ending in -ing or -ed).
📌We can form absolute constructions with Participle I (-ing) or Participle II (-ed):
🔺The sun setting, we packed up our picnic.
🔺Her arms crossed, she waited impatiently.
📌Unlike "деепричастный оборот" in Russian, absolute constructions do not depend on the subject or predicate in the main clause.
🔺The match having ended, the fans left the stadium. (We would translate it into Russian with the word "когда").
📌Note that absolute constructions are separated from the main clause with a comma:
🔺His homework finished, he went out to play.
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❗️ An absolute participial construction is a phrase that adds extra information to a sentence. It has a noun (or pronoun) and a participle (a verb form ending in -ing or -ed).
📌We can form absolute constructions with Participle I (-ing) or Participle II (-ed):
🔺The sun setting, we packed up our picnic.
🔺Her arms crossed, she waited impatiently.
📌Unlike "деепричастный оборот" in Russian, absolute constructions do not depend on the subject or predicate in the main clause.
🔺The match having ended, the fans left the stadium. (We would translate it into Russian with the word "когда").
📌Note that absolute constructions are separated from the main clause with a comma:
🔺His homework finished, he went out to play.
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