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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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A missing subject of a participle phrase
A film-noir shot through with moments of brilliant, lurid colour; the film defies all conventions be it genre, style or even something as mundane and unnecessary as narrative. One scene finds Tetsuya Watari's pouting yakuza in a tense showdown with his rival. Standing on train tracks, surrounded by clean, crisp snow the screen is split in two by a clearly visible dark blue line. The use of this visual effect is telling. It adds nothing to the story, to the characterisation, it simply looks good.
I think the subject of "standing" is the implied "the two."
So I'd like to know whether we can omit the subject of a participle phrase, if we can find it in the same sentence or other sentences, or we can deduce it through the context.
I think the subject of "standing" is the implied "the two."
So I'd like to know whether we can omit the subject of a participle phrase, if we can find it in the same sentence or other sentences, or we can deduce it through the context.
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"So I'd like to know whether we can omit the subject of a participle phrase, As with many of the sentences you post. This is badly written. The writer does intend to say that it's the two who are standing there, but it does not work.
- "So I'd like to know whether we can omit the subject of a participle phrase, As with many of the sentences you post.
- This is badly written.
- The writer does intend to say that it's the two who are standing there, but it does not work.
- As it is written, it seems to say that the screen is standing on train tracks.
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park sang joonI think the subject of "standing" is the implied "the two."So I'd like to know whether we can omit the subject of a participle phrase,As with many of the sentences you post. This is badly written. The writer does intend to say that it's the two who are standing there, but it does not work. As it is written, it seems to say that the screen is sta
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