excelling nature

[Ashiuhto]

Is the following sentence acceptable?

I was fascinated by its magnificent appearance, whose wonderful workmanship excelling nature.

[SoothingDave]

No. "Excelling" is not the proper form. "Excels" works.

[Rover_KE]

It's ungrammatical.

Change 'excelling' to 'excels' or 'excelled' and it would be better, though still odd.

What is 'it'?

Rover

[charliedeut]

My guess is this thread is linked to the one mentioning the world's largest train station. So "it" is (if I'm right), the train station.

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...s-largest.html