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Sentence Correction (SC) | In the mid-1970s, since birds were overcome by pollution, and routinel

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rickyric395 wrote:

Hiegmat AjiteshArun ,KarishmaB MartyTargetTestPrep generis , please provide your two cents on verb-ing modifier being used here. According to this articlehttps://e-gmat.com/blogs/usage-verb-ing-modifiers-part-1/#:~:text=When%20a%20verb%2Ding%20modifier,subject%20of%20the%20preceding%20clause. modified action and modifier must both make sense with the doer of action. But here the doer is 'birds' and the action is 'falling'. modifier phrase provides the consequence of birds falling from sky. This is fine, but birds can't prompt administration to do anything. This doesn't makesense.

Hi rickyric395,

It's possible to use "comma-ing s" that don't really refer directly to the subject. In fact, in most cases, it's better to think of them as referring to some precedingclause . Let me know if the discussion at[00:09:00] in the following video answers yourquestion:

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Statistics : Posted by AjiteshArun • on 09 Oct 2007, 20:10 • Replies 31 • Views 65943



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