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Participal Construction? (#2) (May 27 2008 23:52 GMT) - Dear professional teachers and native speakers, One of the references I encountered says a sentence like the following is a participial construction whose subject is the same between the main clause and the (original) adverb clause. Is it really true? In other words, is the subject in the modifying phrase ("allowing companies to start up such businesses") "Archive services that copy and store information on websites"?? (Example) "Archive services that copy and store information on websites could also become legal under the revised law, allowing companies to start up such businesses." To me, the phrase "allowing companies to start up such businesses" seems to be modifying the whole main clause ("Archive services... |
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