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� After nouns
� Adverbial clauses
� After conjunctions and prepositions
� Fixed expressions
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They often work like a reduced relative clause. They just add more information about a noun.
We can offer you a job cleaning cars
which consists in cleaning
The people invited to the party
who were invited
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They express condition, reason, time
relations, result.
They are usually rather formal
Used economically, one tin will last for six
weeks (if it is used….)
Having failed my medical exams, I took up
teaching (as I had failed, because I had
failed…)
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-ing clauses can be formed with the verbs BE,
HAVE, WISH or KNOW, which are statives
verbs and not used in the progressive.
They express reason or causeThey express reason or cause
Being unable to help in any other way, I gave
her some money.
Knowing her pretty well, I realised something
was wrong
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After talking to you I always feel better.
After having annoyed everybody he went After having annoyed everybody he went
home.
They left without saying goodbye.
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Generally speaking, men can run faster than
women.
Broadly speaking, dogs are good company.
Judging from his expression, he is in bad mood.Judging from his expression, he is in bad mood.
Considering everything, it wasn’t a bad holiday.
Supposing there was a war, what would you do?
Taking everything into consideration, they ought
to get another change.