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15 Participle, to-infinitive and

reduced clauses

Participle clauses including present participle (-ino) clauses,
past participle (-ed) clauses, participle clauses after conjunctions
and prepositions, to-infinitive clauses, reduced clauses

Context listening

1211 Sam Green has taken three months off work to do a sponsored walk through Italy raising
money for charity. Each week he sends an article to his company for its newsletter. Listen to two of his
colleagues talking about Sam's latest article. Which of the problems does Sam talk about?

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MEI OR Listen again and complete the sentences with the exact words Sam uses.

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a number of times, I was feeling thoroughly miserable.
2 by a difficult few days, I was only interested in finding a bed for the night.
3 Naples, I bought yet more walking socks.
4 the sprawl of the city behind me, I walked up into the hills.
5 my sleeping bag, I discovered a scorpion.
6 by a scratching sound, I found a large rat trying to get into my backpack. 107