Participle clauses — Unit 33, Pre-intermediate to Intermediate English

**Walking past** the market on his way home one Tuesday evening, Daniel noticed a small leather notebook lying on the pavement. **Impressed by** its fine stitching and monogrammed cover, he picked it up carefully and looked around for its owner. The street was busy, **filled with** shoppers and tourists moving quickly in both directions. Finding no one who appeared to have dropped it, Daniel decided to take action.

**Determined to** find the rightful owner, Daniel took the notebook to the police station on the corner. **Located near** the town hall, the station was straightforward to find. The officer on duty, **having seen** many lost items that week, thanked Daniel warmly and recorded his contact details in the register.

**Having arrived** home later than usual, Daniel told his flatmate about the discovery. His flatmate, **known for** his sharp memory and wide social circle, immediately recognised the description of the notebook. His university friend Sara, **studying at** the campus nearby, had been searching for exactly that kind of item. She had lost a very similar notebook the previous evening after leaving the library.

Daniel contacted Sara straight away. **Relieved to** hear the good news, she explained that the notebook contained three months of research notes written in her own personal shorthand. **Written in** a system she had developed herself, the notes could not be understood by anyone else. She had been deeply **worried about** losing her work permanently and had already spent hours retracing her steps.

**Meeting Sara** at the police station the following morning, Daniel was glad to help reunite her with her work. The officer confirmed that the monogram matched her initials exactly. **Thanking both** Daniel and the officer warmly, Sara promised to take them both for coffee that weekend. **Leaving the station** in bright morning sunshine, Daniel felt that even an ordinary walk home could sometimes lead to a surprisingly good deed. **Having solved** the mystery, both he and Sara started the day in far better spirits than either had expected.

**Meeting for coffee** that Saturday, the three of them talked for nearly two hours.

Sara, **having recovered** her notes, explained that she had already begun writing a second copy from memory and had managed only eleven pages in two days. **Asked how** long the original had taken, she laughed and said three months.

**Realising how easily** it could happen again, Daniel suggested photographing each page at the end of every week. Sara, **having thought about it** all week already, had reached the same conclusion.

**Written inside** the front cover, it turned out, was her telephone number — added a year earlier and long forgotten. **Having never opened** the book beyond the first page, Daniel had not seen it.

Sara, **grinning over her coffee**, said a two-day wait might have been avoided by turning one page.