How come participle has an adverbial usage?
'Sitting at the cafe with my friends, I suddenly realised that I had left the oven on at home.'
Like this, participle have an adverbial usage sometimes.
But how come? I heard from my english teacher there is omitting cojunction or something. But I am not sure actually.
Is there anyone knowing about history or origin about how participle can be used like that?
Top answer
' The underlined clause modifies the subject, I. It is not adverbial. The clause can be converted to an adverbial of time by adding a preposition.
- ' The underlined clause modifies the subject, I.
- It is not adverbial.
- The clause can be converted to an adverbial of time by adding a preposition.
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'Sitting at the cafe with my friends, I suddenly realised that I had left the oven on at home.'
The underlined clause modifies the subject, I. It is not adverbial.
The clause can be converted to an adverbial of time by adding a preposition.
While sitting at the cafe with my friends, I suddenly realised that I had left the oven on at home.'
0anonymousparticiple have an adverbial usage sometimes.
Participle clauses are almost always adverbial in some sense of the word "adverbial" because they give information about condition, reason, result or time, but they are not truly adverbs. This one is about time. As Alphecca Stars has shown, the missing conjunction is "while", and you might say that the
0By the way, the phrase should be essential to the meaning if it doesn't have the adverb with it. His remembering is not a consequence of his sitting in a cafe. "Sitting at the cafe with my friends, I realized that I didn't want to move to Nebraska after all.", not "Sitting at the cafe with my friends, I took my phone out of my pocket.", but "While sitting at the cafe with my friends, I took my
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