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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

While + V-Ing Grammar

Hi, how are you?

There is a riddle starting with the following:

"1 rabbit saw 9 elephants while going to the river"

I'm really curious to know who is meant by going to the river, the rabbit or the elephants, based on English grammar.


Thank you very much

  

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anonymous " 1 A rabbit saw 9 nine elephants while going to the river" I'm really curious to know who is meant by going to the river, the rabbit or the elephants, based on English grammar. " implicitly have the same subject as the subject of the main clause. So it's "while the rabbit was going to the river".

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  • anonymous " 1 A rabbit saw 9 nine elephants while going to the river" I'm really curious to know who is meant by going to the river, the rabbit or the elephants, based on English grammar.
  • " implicitly have the same subject as the subject of the main clause.
  • So it's "while the rabbit was going to the river".
  • CJ
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anonymous

"1 A rabbit saw 9 nine elephants while going to the river"

I'm really curious to know who is meant by going to the river, the rabbit or the elephants, based on English grammar.

Adjuncts of time like "while going ..." implicitly have the

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