He put on his raincoat, going out and disappearing in the torrents of rain.

[diamondcutter]

He put on his raincoat, going out and disappearing in the torrents of rain.
This sentence is from an English grammar website in China. They say it’s a wrong sentence, but I think it makes sense, meaning “He put on his raincoat, and then went out and disappeared in the torrents of rain.”

同一主语时,用动词并列句或伴随状语有什么不同? - 柯帕斯英语网

He put on his raincoat,went out and disappeared in the torrents of rain.同一个主语的情况下，什么时候写成并列句，什么时候写成分词伴随句？ 比如现在这个例句，能不能逗号后用分词 going out and disappearing...

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[tedmc]

Reverse the sentence, and you have:

Going out and disappearing in the torrents of rain, he put on his raincoat.

Obviously, it doesn't work with the present participles. Your version is okay.

 

[Lycidas]

He put on his raincoat, going out and disappearing in the torrents of rain.
This sentence is from an English grammar website in China. They say it’s a wrong sentence, but I think it makes sense, meaning “He put on his raincoat, and then went out and disappeared in the torrents of rain.”

同一主语时,用动词并列句或伴随状语有什么不同? - 柯帕斯英语网

He put on his raincoat,went out and disappeared in the torrents of rain.同一个主语的情况下，什么时候写成并列句，什么时候写成分词伴随句？ 比如现在这个例句，能不能逗号后用分词 going out and disappearing...

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I agree with you, but I think that it would be helpful to have an adverb(ial) like "forthwith" to clarify that it is a succession, not a coincidence, of events:

He put on his raincoat, going out forthwith and disappearing in the torrents of rain.