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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Present(past) participle

1. Hanging at an angle in the water, the leaf fish is carried along by the currents.

Q1) Can the underlined be placed after the 2nd clause?

(The leaf fish is carried along by the currents, hanging at an angle in the water.)

Q2) As the leaf fish is hanging at an angle in the water, ~.

Is the underlined in Q2 omitted from #1?
  

Top answer

Q1 -- Yes. Q2 -- No, nothing is omitted. You could recast your sentence to use that structure, though: As the leaf fish is hanging at an angle in the water, it is carried along by the currents.

— Mister Micawber

  • Q1 -- Yes.
  • Q2 -- No, nothing is omitted.
  • You could recast your sentence to use that structure, though: As the leaf fish is hanging at an angle in the water, it is carried along by the currents.
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Q1 -- Yes.

Q2 -- No, nothing is omitted. You could recast your sentence to use that structure, though:

As the leaf fish is hanging at an angle in the water, it is carried along by the currents.
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Ah..

Then, is this the same:

Compared with the reproductive rates of other small mammals that of the bat is very low indeed.

Nothing is omitted?
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Nothing is 'omitted'. I am continually cautioning learners against thinking that nonfinite structures are in some way deficient. They are not; they are alternative modes of expression.
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I think I've been confused in this kind of patterns.

So your conclusion is, usually -ing or -ed is a cluase that does not omit anything but 'They are not; they are alternative modes of expression?'

Perhaps, this one more additional question help me understand this thread more.

Given this situation, they are trying to relocate to a larger building.

This ph
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No, you have picked an idiom, as a matter of fact. You will find it listed separately in the dictionaries.
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