📕 Avançado Participle
Participle
clauses
Walking home, I saw… — encurtar frases.
🔑 A grande sacada
Pra encurtar, troque "sujeito + verbo" por um particípio: -ing (ativa) ou -ed / particípio (passiva). Recurso formal, comum na escrita.
// da frase longa pra curta
While I was walking home, I saw an accident.
Walking home, I saw an accident.
After she had finished, she left.
Having finished, she left.
Because he was shocked by the news, he sat down.
Shocked by the news, he sat down.
💡 Mesmo sujeito nas duas partes
O particípio se refere ao sujeito da outra metade. Se os sujeitos forem diferentes, a frase fica "solta" (dangling) e sai errada.
⚠️ Erros comuns do brasileiro
✗ Walking home, the rain started. (a chuva não caminhava)
✓ Walking home, I got caught in the rain.
✗ Having finish the report, she left.
✓ Having finished the report, she left.