Use of Participle in english

[Virendra Kumar]

How participle is used in complex phrases like "He shot the bullet killing many people inside the room" here the present participle is used "killing" but I do not understand exact uses as where and why use Present participle.

[TheParser]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****



Hello,


I believe that many books would recommend a comma after the word "bullet."

As I understand it, it is a shorter way to say something like:

"He shot the bullet, an act that killed many people inside the room."

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Regarding the grammar, here is what a great grammarian has to say:

"A full so that clause of pure result ... can be abridged to a participial clause."

The scholar then gives this example:

1. He mistook me for a friend, so that he caused me some embarrassment.

2. He mistook me for a friend, causing me some embarrassment.

3. He mistook me for a friend, thus causing me some embarrassment.

Source: Page 293 of volume II of Professor Dr. George Oliver Curme's magisterial A Grammar of the English Language (1931).


James