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KennyLu Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Participial Phrases and their functions

Hi everyone,

I have some questions about participial phrases and their functions.

Please take a look at an incorrect sentence below.

Sentence 1 : This building has 100 fully furnished offices, each has its own private meeting rooms.

I understand that Sentence 1 is incorrect and that a number of amendments can be done to make it grammatically correct. One way is to simply add a conjunction "and" to the sentence (See Sentence 2).


Sentence 2 : This building has 100 fully furnished offices, and each has its own private meeting rooms.

However, Sentence 3 seems to work just fine, too.

Sentence 3 : This building has 100 fully furnished offices, each having its own private meeting rooms.

Sentence 3 is written using a participial phrase "each having its own private meeting rooms."


My question is

1) Do sentence 3 and sentence 2 have the same meaning? Can we simply convert sentences with ", and" into sentences containing a participial phrase?

2) What is the function of the phrase "each having its own private meeting rooms" in Sentence 3?


Thank you very much for your help


Kenny

  

Top answer

KennyLu 1) Do sentence 3 and sentence 2 have the same meaning? Yes. KennyLu Can we simply convert sentences with ", and" into sentences containing a participial phrase?

— GPY

  • KennyLu 1) Do sentence 3 and sentence 2 have the same meaning?
  • Yes.
  • KennyLu Can we simply convert sentences with ", and" into sentences containing a participial phrase?
  • Obviously the overall structure of the original sentence has to be suitable.
  • If the structure is suitable then this conversion may be possible, but no doubt there are examples where it does not create good or natural English, or seems to change the meaning (for example, incorrectly suggesting that consecutive actions are concurrent).
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KennyLu1) Do sentence 3 and sentence 2 have the same meaning?

Yes.

KennyLu Can we simply convert sentences with ", and" into sentences containing a participial phrase?

Obviously the overall structure of the original sentence has to be sui

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KennyLu1) Do sentence 3 and sentence 2 have the same meaning?

They have the same meaning but a different style.

KennyLuCan we simply convert sentences with ", and" into sentences containing a participial phrase?

Not as a general rule. For example, the following transformation does not work well stylistically.

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