The tap is leaking. The water is wasted.
____________________ resulting
___________________________.
Is this correct?
The leaking tap resulting the wastage of water.
Answer
My best guess: The tap is leaking, resulting in water waste.
- NOTE: I guess that it's tap (as in a water tap) rather than tape. The tape in your sentence could refer to some kind of seal tape, but if it really was seal tape, I'd expect the verb to be "torn off" or "broken", rather than "leaking".
The main point of your exercise seems to be about joining sentences by turning one of them into a participle clause. Because you're forced to use resulting, the exercise seems to want you to know the phrasal verb result in.
The main pattern of result in is result in something, which means that you have to turn the second sentence into a noun; which you did correctly as wastage of water, though I think waste is enough (wastage sounds a little too formal for me). You could use either a waste of water or simply use (like I choose to use) water waste.
We now have a good enough background to convert the two sentences. Let's do it!
Original: The tap is leaking. The water is wasted.
Use 'result in', turn the idea into a noun:
The tap is leaking. This results in water waste.Join the two sentences by turning result in into resulting in (a participle):
The tap is leaking, resulting in water waste.
NOTE: The leaking tap resulting (the) wastage of water is not a sentence, even with resulting in:
Incorrect: The leaking tap resulting in wastage of water. <-- DON'T USE IT!
Why? Because the auxiliary verb is missing! If you want to phrase it that way, you need at least this:
The leaking tap is resulting in wastage of water.
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