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Practice #2
Participial Adjectives

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Correct the following sentences. Some of them may be correct.

1. Mt. Rushmore is an amazed place.

2. Tourists to this South Dakota landmark are always moved by its story.

3. The mountain sculpture is an astonished 60-foot grouping of the busts of four U.S. presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln.

4. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was inspiring by the four presidents and called it a "shrine to democracy" in
    the Black Hills.

5. Borglum was so consuming by the project that he called his own son Lincoln.

6. The project had just gotten off the ground in the mid- 1920s when the devastated Great Depression
    hit in 1929.

7. Thus, Borglum was demoralized by funding problems throughout the project.

8. Construction was both entertained and frightened since the workers had to use dynamite to do
    some of the major carving.

9. Borglum was disappointing that ill health caused him to limit his work on the project toward the end.

10. In fact, everyone was saddened when he died of a heart attack, just short of finishing the project.

11. The monument was never dedicated because of the disturbed bombing of Pearl Harbor and the
    beginning of World War II.

12. Travelers in the west are always entertaining by the sculpture and often stirring by its patriotic
    overtones.

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