What's the subject of "enabling" here?
"When we learn to read, we recycle a specific region of our visual system known as the visual word-form area, enabling us to recognize strings of letters and connect them to language areas."
Q. What's the subject of "enabling" here? "the visual word-form area"? or "(our) recycling a specific region~" or something else?
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thanks3 "(our) recycling a specific region~" This is the semantically implied subject, though of course it is not an explicit grammatical subject. Very strictly speaking, in my opinion, the original sentence could be thought to be faulty in this regard, but in normal reading we would accept it.
- thanks3 "(our) recycling a specific region~" This is the semantically implied subject, though of course it is not an explicit grammatical subject.
- Very strictly speaking, in my opinion, the original sentence could be thought to be faulty in this regard, but in normal reading we would accept it.
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thanks3"(our) recycling a specific region~"
This is the semantically implied subject, though of course it is not an explicit grammatical subject. Very strictly speaking, in my opinion, the original sentence could be thought to be faulty in this regard, but in normal reading we would accept it.
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