SAT® · Reading and Writing: Form, Structure, and Sense — Verbs and Verbals
A Participle Is Not a Predicate
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- How it worksHow does a participle need a helping verb in front of it before it can serve as the main predicate?
- Common mistakeWhy doesn't 'The engineers designing the bridge' report anything the engineers actually did?
- Worked exampleWalk me through turning 'The current carrying sediment downstream' into a complete sentence two ways.
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The glacier at the head of the valley ___ about 7 meters a year, a rate the survey has confirmed in each of the past 9 summers.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?End of topic.