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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

An adjective or adverbial participle phrase?

The before helper gone, this is the revived version.

Either one of the top three on this list could have landed the No. 1 spot, but we’re going with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Not just because it’s the best Batman story on here, but because it’s all-around one of the best comics ever published. Setting its sights on a futuristic Gotham City and an aging Bruce Wayne, Miller’s magnum opus is a neo-noir tragedy with hints of social commentary and a metric ton of action on every page.

I'd like to know whether the underlined participle phrase modifies "opus" or "is."

Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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Probably a revised version.

What's the antecedent of "its" in "Setting its sights," "opus" or "is."
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I'd like to revive this thread.
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park sang joonThe before helper gone, this is the revived version.Either one of the top three on this list could have landed the No. 1 spot, but we’re going with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Not just because it’s the best Batman story on here, but because it’s all-around one of the best comics ever published. Setting its sights on a futuristic Gotham City
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Thank you, BillJ, for your valuable opinion. Emotion: smile
Then, I'd like to know what you think is the subject of "Setting."
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Most non-finite clauses are subjectless, so we have to look elsewhere for the subject. In this case it's retrievable by looking at the subject of the matrix clause, i.e. “Miller’s magnum opus”. But it's only the 'understood' subject, not the syntactic one.

BillJ

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