Choose the best participle-clause completion for each sentence.
1............... the manuscript to the publisher the previous Friday, the author was unable to make further changes when the error was discovered on Monday.
Wrong!
"Having submitted" marks the completed submission as prior to the author's inability to make changes on Monday.
2Throughout the live debate, ............... it from the studio, the editor was also checking incoming corrections on a second screen.
Wrong!
"moderating" describes an activity simultaneous with checking corrections, as signalled by "Throughout the live debate" and "also."
3............... on three separate occasions, the latest six months before the accident, the contractors cannot plausibly claim ignorance.
Wrong!
"Having been warned" expresses completed passive events that occurred well before the contractors' later claim.
4Because the board's rules permitted circulation only after approval was complete, the report, ............... by all seven reviewers, was circulated that afternoon.
Wrong!
"having been approved" shows that unanimous approval was complete before circulation, as the board's rules required.
5We do not yet know whether it will, but ............... the shipment clears customs today, we can still meet the launch date.
Wrong!
"Assuming" introduces the unresolved condition under which the launch date can still be met.
6............... the software in a sandbox, the engineers monitored its memory use in real time.
Wrong!
"Testing" presents the test and the real-time monitoring as simultaneous activities.
7............... against the original recordings before release, the transcripts revealed several omissions that the automated system had missed.
Wrong!
"Having been checked" is passive because the transcripts underwent comparison with the recordings before revealing omissions.
8The tribunal published its reasoning in full, ............... several earlier interpretations of the statute untenable.
Wrong!
"thereby rendering" presents the interpretations becoming untenable as a result of the tribunal's publication.
9In the same statement, ............... the accuracy of the figures, the minister nevertheless argued that they had been interpreted too broadly.
Wrong!
"while not disputing" marks a simultaneous concession within the same statement, matching "nevertheless."
10..............., the evidentiary phase could begin without further delay.
Wrong!
"All procedural objections having been resolved" is an absolute clause with its own subject; the evidentiary phase did not resolve the objections.
11At the exact moment the deleted logs were examined, ............... no reliable way to reconstruct them, the investigators were forced to limit their conclusions.
Wrong!
"there being" describes the lack of a reliable method at the same time as the examination and the investigators' resulting decision.
12............... in isolation, the concession appears unequivocal; read alongside the preceding paragraph, however, it is clearly conditional.
Wrong!
"Viewed" is passive because the concession is interpreted by a reader rather than performing the act of viewing.
Exercise complete
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Answers
- Having submitted the manuscript to the publisher the previous Friday, the author was unable to make further changes when the error was discovered on Monday.
- Throughout the live debate, moderating it from the studio, the editor was also checking incoming corrections on a second screen.
- Having been warned on three separate occasions, the latest six months before the accident, the contractors cannot plausibly claim ignorance.
- Because the board’s rules permitted circulation only after approval was complete, the report, having been approved by all seven reviewers, was circulated that afternoon.
- We do not yet know whether it will, but Assuming the shipment clears customs today, we can still meet the launch date.
- Testing the software in a sandbox, the engineers monitored its memory use in real time.
- Having been checked against the original recordings before release, the transcripts revealed several omissions that the automated system had missed.
- The tribunal published its reasoning in full, thereby rendering several earlier interpretations of the statute untenable.
- In the same statement, while not disputing the accuracy of the figures, the minister nevertheless argued that they had been interpreted too broadly.
- All procedural objections having been resolved , the evidentiary phase could begin without further delay.
- At the exact moment the deleted logs were examined, there being no reliable way to reconstruct them, the investigators were forced to limit their conclusions.
- Viewed in isolation, the concession appears unequivocal; read alongside the preceding paragraph, however, it is clearly conditional.