As economy grows rapidly, a sizable middle class has emerged in the Yangtze River Delta area, making it the dominant part of the well-off society in this area.
What's the name of the red part in English Grammer?
Does it function as an adverb clause?
:-)
Top answer
It is a nonfinite (present participial) adverbial clause.
— Mister Micawber
It is a nonfinite (present participial) adverbial clause.
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I don't know what you have in mind for 'type of adverbial clause', but this one is a clause of result, I suppose-- it shows the outcome of the middle class emergence. The comma is there because the clause adds additional information to the main clause; it does not define it.