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Forlan Posted 17 years ago
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i still don't understand the pattern of sentence that i quote from wsj.

On Monday, eight Taliban insurgents raided Pul-i-Alam, a provincial capital south of Kabul, firing rockets at government buildings and sparking a gun battle that left at least 11 people dead, including the attackers.
  

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forlan On Monday, eight Taliban insurgents raided Pul-i-Alam, a provincial capital south of Kabul, firing rockets at government buildings and sparking a gun battle that left at least 11 people dead, including the attackers. You don't understand the pattern? I'm not sure what you mean.

— CalifJim

  • forlan On Monday, eight Taliban insurgents raided Pul-i-Alam, a provincial capital south of Kabul, firing rockets at government buildings and sparking a gun battle that left at least 11 people dead, including the attackers.
  • You don't understand the pattern?
  • I'm not sure what you mean.
  • On Monday eight Taliban insurgents | raided Pul-i-Alam, [main clause] (which is) a provincial capital (which is) south of Kabul (they, the insurgents) (were) firing rockets at government buildings [participial] and (they, the insurgents) (were) sparking a gun battle [participial] that left at least 11 people dead including the attackers.
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forlanOn Monday, eight Taliban insurgents raided Pul-i-Alam, a provincial capital south of Kabul, firing rockets at government buildings and sparking a gun battle that left at least 11 people dead, including the attackers.
You don't understand the pattern? I'm not sure what you mean.

On Monday
eight Taliban in
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CalifJim
forlanOn Monday, eight Taliban insurgents raided Pul-i-Alam, a provincial capital south of Kabul, firing rockets at government buildings and sparking a gun battle that left at least 11 people dead, including the attackers.
You don't understand the pattern? I'm not sure what you mean.

On Monday
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You need to study the topic called "participials". These are patterns that are added to main clauses. They can be used to describe things that are going on at the same time as the action in the main clause, or things that are the reason for the action in the main clause, or various other relationships.

If you study the participials enough to master them, there's no reason you can't mak
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