Enrich your sentences with phrases beginning with -ing and -ed verbs.

1. The phrases beginning with -ing and -ed generally indicate when, why, how, for what purpose, etc. These phrases can be put either at the beginning or at the end of sentences.

1) Armed with a torch (火把), the vicar [ `vik[ ] (教区牧师) went up into the clock tower (塔) to see what was going on.
2) The war went on for years, killing thousands of innocent people.
3) Ashamed of having acted so rashly (轻率地), my brother apologized to my sister.
4) Fearing that she would get too fat, she refused to eat sweets.
5) Finding that he had no money on himself, he had to call his wife to come to pay the bill.

2. The -ing and -ed phrases after nouns generally modify the nouns.

1) The man carrying the big suitcase was my uncle.
2) For the men accustomed to (习惯于) eating seven-course (七道菜) dinners (正餐), village life seemed unbearable (无法忍受的).
3) By moving her elbow on a picture, she was able to tell the figure and color printed on it.
4) Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive.
5) The factory making fake (假的) products is located at the foot of the mountain.

Because the phrases beginning with -ing and -ed verbs concern the question of logical subject (逻辑主语), which determines （决定） the form of the phrases, be careful when you use them in your writing.

Exercise:

Decide whether the following sentences have used the right form or not. If your answer is not, please correct it.

(1) Driving down the street, a dog was injured.
(2) Examining my shopping receipts (发票), it became obvious that I was overcharged (多收钱了) at the cloth store.
(3) Seen from the top of Lan Mountain, I found Lanzhou is covered with poisonous (有毒的) smog.
(4) Found a bottle of whisky, the man declared that he would drink to the bottom of the bottle.