jlo1234 wrote:
egmat
I've seen this question on some of your materials when you were trying to explain verb-ing modifiers, and I've consistently got confused.
I've learned that one of the requirements of comma + verb-ing modifiers is that the doer of the modified action and the doer of the modifying action have to be the same. For example, "Joe became the CFO of the company, increasing his salary significantly." Here, this sentence is incorrect because althoughJoe is the doer of "became",
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I've seen this question on some of your materials when you were trying to explain verb-ing modifiers, and I've consistently got confused.
I've learned that one of the requirements of comma + verb-ing modifiers is that the doer of the modified action and the doer of the modifying action have to be the same. For example, "Joe became the CFO of the company, increasing his salary significantly." Here, this sentence is incorrect because althoughJoe is the doer of "became",
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