In conversation, most people would probably use your sentence (only changing "come" to "go"). In writing, one might use a participle: The house being haunted, I didn't go near it.
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AnonymousPlease, can you tell me how I put the following sentence in the present participle?I understand what you mean, but you need to phrase it differently. You can't "put a sentence in the present participle". Instead, it's like this:
hrsaneiCan't we say;Yes. That's possible, though strict grammarians would tell you that you risk implying that the roads rained a lot.
Having rained a lot, all the roads were flooded.