Participle clause

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Hi, is the following sentence correct?"Apart from the very subject being of little to no use, which the lecturer herself acknowledged as well, I deem it important to mention that it was not made clear what fields the practice was to be realized in, and it was only after I inquired about it that I learned the conditions, which on no account did comply with what had been mentioned in the first seminar."I'm mainly interested in the participle clause and the following one, because I'm not sure if it's the same case of the participle clause and the main one having diffierent subjects, as in "The train having arrived late, we missed our flight.", which I know is perfectly correct.Thanks

Ivanhr · Accepted Answer

The main clause has "lecturer" as its subject and "subject" is the subject of the participle clause. So yes, they have different subjects as you suspected.

I have some reservations about the use of "on no account". "on no account/under no circumstances" is usually said when we want to emphasize that something should or must not happen so it seems misplaced there. I could be wrong though.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

"Apart from the very subject being of little to no use, which the lecturer herself acknowledged as well, I deem it important to mention that it was not made clear what fields the practice was to be realized in, and it was only after I inquired about it that I learned the conditions, which on no account did comply with what had been mentioned in the first seminar."

While it may be grammatically OK, I find it very convoluted.
Let's put some phrasal place holder in to better see the structure, and take only the first independent clause:

Main clause 1:
Apart from X, (the fact) which Y, I deem it Z
and (coordinating conjunction)

I assume you are talking about X. To me, it is a reduced noun clause, object of the preposition (apart from).
Further, X can be considered either as a gerund phrase (being) with subject (as subject of being). or subject (as the object of preposition) with a reduced adjectival participial clause.)

That is in contrast with the introductory non-finite clause in your last sentence, which dangles as a sentence modifier.

By the way, you will not hear native speakers using this sort of sentence in conversations. This is the more natural version:

We missed our flight because the train arrived late.

Anonymous · Answer

Ok, version No. 2:

"In addition to the fact that the very subject is of little to no use, which the lecturer herself acknowledged as well, I deem it important to mention that it was not made clear what fields the practice was to be realized in, and it was only after I inquired about it that I learned the conditions, which in no sense did comply with what had been mentioned in the first seminar."

Comments?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Anonymous Ok, version No. 2:"In addition to the fact that the very subject is of little to no use, which the lecturer herself acknowledged as well, I deem it important to mention that it was not made clear what fields the practice was to be realized in, and it was only after I inquired about it that I learned the conditions, which in no sense did comply with what had been mentioned in the first seminar."Comments?

It is moderately less convoluted that the first, so I find it slightly more readable. It is still very formal and stilted with the tonality of academic aloofness tinged with arrogance.

Anonymous · Answer

Thanks, just what I wanted.

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