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Practice #2 Participial
Adjectives
Correct the following
sentences. Some of them may be correct.
1. Mt. Rushmore is an amazed amazing
place.
2. Tourists to this South
Dakota landmark are always moved correct by its story.
3. The mountain sculpture is an
astonished astonishing 60-foot grouping of the busts of four
U.S. presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
4. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was
inspiring inspired by the four presidents and called it a
"shrine to democracy" in the Black Hills.
5. Borglum was so consuming consumed 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 devastating
Great
Depression hit in 1929.
7. Thus, Borglum was
demoralized correct by funding problems throughout the
project.
8. Construction was both entertained
entertaining and frightened frightening
since the workers had
to
use
dynamite to do some of the major carving.
9. Borglum was disappointing disappointed that ill health caused him to limit his work on the project
toward the
end.
10. In fact, everyone was
saddened correct when he died of a heart attack, just short of finishing
the
project.
11. The monument was never
dedicated because of the disturbed disturbing bombing of Pearl
Harbor and
the beginning of World War II.
12. Travelers in the west are
always entertaining entertained by the sculpture and often stirring stirred
by its
patriotic overtones.
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