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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
participle
1. The woman in the middle is wearing a blue uniform and checking a ticket.
2. The woman in the middle is wearing a blue uniform, checking a ticket.
Q1) Is #2 grammatical?
Q2) If I use #2 is the intended meaning become ambiguous or changed?
Q3) Is #2 something to do with a type of a sentence like this? "Drawing her bow with all her poser, she shot an arrow."(#3) or "She shot an arrow drawing her bow with all her power."?(#4) (By the way if #3 and #4 are the same or intended meaning changes?)
2. The woman in the middle is wearing a blue uniform, checking a ticket.
Q1) Is #2 grammatical?
Q2) If I use #2 is the intended meaning become ambiguous or changed?
Q3) Is #2 something to do with a type of a sentence like this? "Drawing her bow with all her poser, she shot an arrow."(#3) or "She shot an arrow drawing her bow with all her power."?(#4) (By the way if #3 and #4 are the same or intended meaning changes?)
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moon7296 1. 2. Q1) Is #2 grammatical?
- moon7296 1.
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- Q1) Is #2 grammatical?
- Not really.
- It is terse and telegraphic and consciously disjointed, like in a hard-boiled detective novel.
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moon72961. The woman in the middle is wearing a blue uniform and checking a ticket.2. The woman in the middle is wearing a blue uniform, checking a ticket.Q1) Is #2 grammatical?Not really. It is terse and telegraphic and consciously disjointed, like in a hard-boiled detective novel. You can do that sort of thing in other situations, though. "She was eating lu
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