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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Participle Modifier
Receiving huge sums of capital from the United States after the Second World War, Japan used them to help build a modern industrial system.
Guys ,Please help me understand the usage of participle modifier...Does above sentence makes any sense... My understanding was that ing modifier usually acts as an adverbial modifier for example:Having reached the classroom, she became the object of many questions.But in above sentence ,it does not make sense Receiving huge sums .... to modify build?
Experts,Please clarify..
Guys ,Please help me understand the usage of participle modifier...Does above sentence makes any sense... My understanding was that ing modifier usually acts as an adverbial modifier for example:Having reached the classroom, she became the object of many questions.But in above sentence ,it does not make sense Receiving huge sums .... to modify build?
Experts,Please clarify..
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Sometimes they act as adjectives too, like in your sentence. Japan, (which was) receiving huge sums of capital...
- Sometimes they act as adjectives too, like in your sentence.
- Japan, (which was) receiving huge sums of capital...
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Sometimes they act as adjectives too, like in your sentence.
Japan, (which was) receiving huge sums of capital...
Japan, (which was) receiving huge sums of capital...
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English 1b3Sometimes they act as adjectives too, like in your sentence.ah, got it , however present participles usually show action occurring at the same time as that of the main verb (htt
Japan, (which was) receiving huge sums of capital...
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No, it's fine.
Though the explanation your site gives isn't wrong, it doesn't provide all uses of the present participle.
In your sentence, the receiving happens before the using, perhaps with little gap in time between them.
Sometimes an ing participle phrase will result from a shortened adverbial clause, prooving my point that the two actions, the ing verb and the fini
Though the explanation your site gives isn't wrong, it doesn't provide all uses of the present participle.
In your sentence, the receiving happens before the using, perhaps with little gap in time between them.
Sometimes an ing participle phrase will result from a shortened adverbial clause, prooving my point that the two actions, the ing verb and the fini
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Take a look at the bottom half of this site's discussion on the subject, once again showing the ing clause has more temporal flexibitlity than you may think
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You may be on the receiving end of his/her fit of anger/short temper.
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