The -ing form after conjunctions and prepositions

 This is an article about a woman who is head of a supermarket group. Rewrite the sentences with underlining. Use an -ing form after a conjunction or preposition instead of the underlined parts.

Example

After leaving school at 18, Elaine studied business management at Granby Polytechnic.

Elaine Archer is a 34-year-old woman in a very important job. She’s head of the huge Brisco Supermarkets group.

Elaine left school at 18 and then studied business management at Granby Polytechnic. She left the Polytechnic, but she didn’t take any exams. Elaine decided to see the world and then to make her home in Britain. She spent four years in the USA. She thought about her career during the time she was filling shelves in a supermarket"

As soon as she returned to Britain, Ms Archer bought a small food store. She was soon the owner of a dozen stores in south-east England. She made her stores a success because she pleased the customers. When Brisco took over Archer Stores, Elaine became south-east area manager of Brisco. She has risen to be head of the company in spite of the fact that she is a woman in a man’s world. We certainly have not heard the last of her.

Activity

Find out some details of the life of a famous person. Write three or four sentences about the person, using the -ing form.