CEFR B2; focus: past participle clauses used to reduce passive relative, adverbial, and supplementive clauses.
Past Participle Clauses Exercise
- B2
Why “hair of the dog” means a drink after drinking
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“Hair of the dog” means alcohol used to ease a hangover. Its strange wording comes from an older cure for a dog bite.
Where “all that glitters is not gold” comes from
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This well known saying warns that appearances can deceive. Its roots are older than Shakespeare, though he helped make it famous.
Relative Clause Reduction Review Exercise
- C1
CEFR C1; focus: relative clause reduction, including active and passive participles, perfect participles, adjective/prepositional reductions, appositive noun phrases, and cases where reduction is not licensed.
When explode meant to clap a performer off the stage
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“Explode” once meant driving a performer offstage with noisy disapproval. Its modern sense of bursting came later.
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