Participial constructions do not always modify verbs?
1) Seeing me, she smiled at me
-> When she saw me, she smiled at me.
2) Walking along the street, I met a friend of mine.
-> As I walked along the strret, I met a friend of mine.
I think that seeing me modifies smiled and walking along the street modifies met resepectively as an adverb phrase, right?
3) They left in the morning, arriving in the evening.
-> They left in the morning and they arrived in the evening.
However, here in the sentence, I think that arriving in the evening cannot modify left because and clause is not an adverb clause, right?
And then can I say that participial constructions do not always modify verbs?
What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much as usual in advance.
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Hans51 And then can I say that participial constructions do not always modify verbs? I suspect that most of the time these clauses are noun modifiers, that is, non-finite relative clauses. Here is a good slide show.
- Hans51 And then can I say that participial constructions do not always modify verbs?
- I suspect that most of the time these clauses are noun modifiers, that is, non-finite relative clauses.
- Here is a good slide show.
- Unfortunately the professor uploaded the slides in portrait, rather than landscape mode, resulting in the right-hand side being clipped.
- But the complete text is on the slide notes below the presentation.
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Hans51And then can I say that participial constructions do not always modify verbs?
I suspect that most of the time these clauses are noun modifiers, that is, non-finite relative clauses.
Here is a good slide show. Unfortunately the professor uploaded the slides in portrait, rather than landscape mode, resulting in the right-hand side being clipped.
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