Questions tagged [participle-clauses]
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Commas before participle clauses
We sometimes use a comma before a participle clause:
There's Neville, eating as usual.
In came the first runner, closely followed by the second.
A little girl walked past, her doll dragging behind ...
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Why ", removing ..." is better than ", which removes ..." in this case?
I just got a suggestion from Grammarly that I don't understand. This is my original sentence:
As a result, type MyEnum is composed of literal string types, which removes the need for import just for ...
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How do we determine which person the participle clause is talking about?
I caught him while investigating. (here the investigator is me)
I caught him while playing video games. (here it was him who was playing video games.)However, It could mean you were playing video ...
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What is the subject of the “sizzled”?
I don’t understand what is happening to the following sentence, especially “ that sizzled for a split second”
I read this on Kimutatu Tokyo university English reading (キムタツ東大英語リーディング), an English ...
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Having involved and Having been involved
Why does the following sentence need a passive participle (having been involved)?
He has worked in different Southern cities and some years in Europe, and considers himself semi-retired, having ...
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Participle or gerund clause
I came across the following sentence and I am not sure about the grammatical function of "winning the prize". Is this a participle clause?
There is little likelihood of Boris winning the ...
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'Having been released in ...' or 'Released in ...'? Is the Perfect Participle Necessary?
Admittedly, there are a few questions similar to this, but I find that the examples are usually compromised by other errors.
In these two examples (below), which use participle clauses as supplements, ...
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“covering an area of 6000 square metres.”
I came across this introductory text of the Terracotta Army and found the bold part a bit weird, can you use the participle “covering” that way?
It reads better, to me, if I rephrase it to “This pit, ...
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He felt sick and threw up a lot because drinking too much one day before. - correct use of a participle phrase?
Example 1
Because drinking too much one day before, he felt sick and threw up a lot.
Example 2
He felt sick and threw up a lot because drinking too much one day before.
I know Example 1 is a ...
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Differences in structure between an participle phrase and an participle clause
Removing his pants, Ron jumped into the water to save the child.
Walking down the street, I ran into an old friend.
Packing his baggage, he left his home and proceeded to cut all his ties
with his ...
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What does this past participle attribute refer to?
An excerpt from this article:
Such solutions all take quantum states to be objective properties of the physical system they describe and
not as catalogs of personal judgments about those
physical ...
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Participle clauses with different subjects
I saw other phrases like
Tom doing the homework, Jane cleaned her room.
But I'm not sure with this sentence:
He doing the homework, Jane cleaned her room.
Is it possible to have pronoun in subject ...
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Three questions on "In full glory reflected now shines in the stream"
2nd stanza of "The Star-Spangled Banner":
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er ...
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Can someone help analyze the structure of the second clause?
Below is the example:
Wind will power the tower’s motion, making it the first self-powered skyscraper in history.
Since participial clauses share the same subject. Is "wind" the subject ...
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Japan vs the percentage in Japan [closed]
Since what hovers is the percentage and not the country, I wonder if I have to start the second clause with "the percentage" and not "Japan".
Hovering between 3% and 7%, Japan has ...
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participial clause: hitting Mary on the head [closed]
It's generally known that a "having + past participle" clause can indicate an event that takes place before the one described by the main clause. There are, however, "Ving" forms ...
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What is the implied subject of "accounting"?
I dreamed up these two sentences. I did some research. It seems that they are both correct. I understand that,in Sentence 1, the implied subject of "accounting" is the subject of the first ...
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What are the grammar rules that support using participle clauses in this way (that is, the way they were used in the sentences below)?
The North West of England has seen the greatest percentage increase in first-time buyer prices, rising by 35% (£43,812) over five years to 2021.
Source: independent.co.uk
Local fixed line calls were ...
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Is it a participle or a gerund?
I made two sentences with a word I intended to use as a gerund. But I noticed that it seems like a participle, too. Can the word "having" I wrote below have the both roles?
There are some ...
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Participles Functioning as Adverbials
I've read that 'participles functioning as adverbials' can be usefully viewed as reduced forms of adverb clauses. My question is can all participles functioning as adverbials be reconstituted into ...
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Isn't it supposed to be 'it' instead of 'its'?
This is a paragraph from the book 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World' by Jason Hickel. I am not quite sure whether its having fallen is grammatically correct. If I were to use such ...
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Use of "Having + v3"
"Having played cricket for two years, I am a very good batsman" Is this sentence correct? Can I use It has been with "having"? Like:
" It has been 2 years having played ...
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until [it had] risen
Could "subject + had" sequence be omitted in the following? If it's possible only in b, why can't the same happen to a?
a. The soldiers remained in the room until they had witnessed the ...
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What are complete sentences of elliptic phrases such as "Or being lied about..."?
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
Is the following their ...
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What's the difference between "people involved" and "involved people"?
I learned at school to put an adjective clause in front of the noun when it consists of only one word and to put it after the noun when it consists of more than one word.
However, I sometimes find a ...
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Is "One of them being tourist attractions" a complete sentence?
What the title says. Consider this example:
"There are a lot to visit when going sightseeing. One of them being tourist attractions."
Is "One of them being tourist attractions." a ...
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Can we use participle clauses as adverbial modifiers?
Most of the time, participle clauses are used in sentences like the ones that I have written below (all of which feature present participles):
[1] Walking the dog, she breathed the fresh air.
[2] He ...
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and fixed himself a cup of coffee = fixing himself a cup of coffee?
Can "and fixed" be changed into "fixing" in the following sentence? If not, why?
John got up at 7:30 and fixed himself a cup of coffee.
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participial construction: heading to Germany
Can the following sentence be naturally rewritten as one containing a participial construction?
a. Those refugees were driven out of their country and headed / and were heading to Germany.
b. Those ...
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participial construction: the driver dying instantly
Is the boldfaced participial construction used properly? If not, why?
The car crashed into the building, the driver dying instantly.
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After / when scolded
Are the following sentences both okay? Or should "being" be inserted?
After scolded by her teacher, she ran crying all the way home.
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while Sarah running her own business
In the following sentence, can the second "dreams of" be omitted?
Laura dreams of becoming a chef, while Sarah dreams of running her own business.
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Is 'watching him' a gerund clause in this example?
He saw James watching him.
Recently, I have become familiar with non-finite clauses. This has led me to question the function of the ing- clause in constructions like the one above. Prior to learning ...
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Why are non-finite verb phrases defined as non-finite clauses?
Before this question is marked as a duplicate, understand that I am not questioning the classification of a non-finite clause nor asking the generic reason for said classification. I know that the ...
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"The prices of medical supplies got higher, leading to more COVID cases."
Can a whole sentence work as a subject of present participle clause? Can I write like this (is this grammatically correct)?
The prices of medical supplies got higher, leading to more COVID cases.
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Present simple with "that" vs. a participle
I know the subordinate conjunction that is often omitted. Here are two sentences:
Select the course containing the exercises you want to repeat.
Select the course contains the exercises you want to ...
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how to use participles as adverbials
Would you please tell me whether the use of the participle clause is correct in the following sentence:
Our young children are fascinated with the old-day musicians, TV shows and the life before they ...
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Participle phrase or participle clause?
In the following sentence, I want to know what the bold part refers to. Is it a participle phrase or participle clause? And the reason behind it.
Being the earliest well-known example of a financial ...
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grammatical role of "using piano keys"
You just heard "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. This is a song about racial harmony using piano keys. The black keys on the piano are ebony, and the white ones are ...
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Is it being faced, faced, or having been faced with the increasing unemployment?
In writing the following sentence, I am hesitating which one (Being faced, faced, having been faced) I should use at the beginning:
_____ with the increasing unemployment, many people went on strike ...
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"There is somebody" + verbing or + to verb?
I looked up "there is somebody" in Corpus and found two sentences
In short, unless there is somebody willing to take the risk of
speaking up for it....
there is somebody to protect the ...
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the group set out for Athy having had an enjoyable, interesting and fun weekend
However, on landing all was well and the group set out for Athy having had an enjoyable, interesting and fun weekend. https://www.lexico.com/definition/fun
This sentence is an example listed as one ...
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Never having p.p. vs. Having never p.p.?
Recently I have encountered 'Having not p.p.', which puts not between having and p.p.
In fact, I was taught to put not before having p.p.
And BBC Learning English confirms it. Which is the definite ...
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"exceeding France’s rate in 2009 and reaching almost 60% in the end of period." Why not "exceeded" and "reached"?
In this sentence why the ing form of the verb is used instead of past tense?
Germany’s rate increased sharply throughout the period, exceeding France’s rate in 2009 and reaching almost 60% in the end ...
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Can we transform clauses to participle clauses when they appear in question-form sentences?
We know the clauses in bold (01 and 02) can be reduced to participle clauses because the subjects of the subordinate clauses are the same as those of the main clauses:
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We saw lots of lanterns when ...
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The subject of "lacking accounts by conquered people..."
However, lacking accounts by conquered people about their interactions with the Incas, it is unknown how much of the information of the Inca conquest as related by the ruling class is factual.(From ...
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"largely transshipping goods produced elsewhere"--participle clause or shortened relative clause?
A century ago, Carribean, Chinese, and African ports were open for trade and served as flourishing entrepôts, largely transshipping goods produced elsewhere. (
From https://eml.berkeley.edu/~eichengr/...
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have editorialized, criticizing... / have editorialized and criticized
Other papers have editorialized, criticizing the government for its
inflexibility.
This is an example of the word editorialize found in Collins English Dictionary. I would like to know if there's any ...
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Is "using" a Gerund or participle?
The house was built using cardboard.
Is "using cardboard" a participle phrase or gerund?
If it is a participle, what's its subject?
If it is a gerund which word it is modifying?
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Is the usage of the participle clause correct, here?
I read in Advanced Grammer In Use that sometimes the participle clause has its own subject, like:
The collection of vases is priceless, some being over two thousand years old.
According to the above ...
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