Usage with phrases.

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1.The house was adorned with bright, flower baskets, sparkling in the sun.

2. The house was adorned with unusual flower baskets, fascinating in its design and style.

Is 2 o.k with the phrase attached?

Is it grammatically wrong?

It doesn't relate to a specific word (like baskets,sparkling) like the first example. You could recast it with a conjunction for clarity.

The house was adorned with unusual flower baskets, and was fascinating in its design and style.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

panda blue 483Is 2 o.k with the phrase attached?

Yes, but at first I thought "fascinating ..." was describing the baskets, so I was about to correct it to "fascinating in their design and style". I guess you intended it to describe the house, so then it's OK.

panda blue 483Is it grammatically wrong?

No.

panda blue 483It doesn't relate to a specific word (like baskets,sparkling) like the first example.

I thought in both sentences it was supposed to relate to the house. That's how participle clauses usually work. They have an implicit subject that matches the explicit subject given in the main clause. If you wanted the baskets-sparkling connection, you should not have put any commas in that sentence.

panda blue 483The house was adorned with unusual flower baskets [no comma] and was fascinating in its design and style.

Here's another case where you should omit the comma. Here you have 'fascinating' relating to 'house' though you claimed earlier that it "doesn't relate to a specific word".

CJ

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