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Quote Ron: ING MODIFIER FOLLOWING COMMA
this type of modifier modifies the entire preceding clause.
When you use a COMMA -ING modifier after a clause**, you should actually satisfy TWO requirements:
1. the modifier should modify the action of the preceding clause;
2. The subject of the preceding clause should also make sense as the agent of the -ING action.
This sort of modifier should additionally satisfy TWO requirements:
1) It should apply most nearly to the subject of the preceding clause (as you've said); and, even more importantly,
2) It should have one of the following RELATIONSHIPS to that clause:
* Immediate consequence
* Simultaneous, but lower-priority, action
VERB + Ing Modifiers also take the tense of the Preceding clause.
If you have noun +, + __ing, then the __ing describes that initial noun. I.e., if there are other nouns in modifier(s) attached to that noun, then comma + __ing DOES NOT describe those closer nouns.
e.g.,
The father of the two boys, arriving at the courthouse, was xxxxx.
--> This sentence unambiguously states that the father was arriving at the courthouse.
It's important that the construction work this way, because there aren't very many other modifiers with similar functionality.
On the other hand verb + ed modifier modifies the nearest noun correctly here i.e. records. |
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