keannu
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In a strict grammar rule, usually participles in the subordinate clause describe the subject in the main clause, but this seems to be either a mistake or a common custom. "soaked, but otherwise unharmed" literally describes "he" not "Napoleon(a cat)". What do you think?
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ex)...Then, all of a sudden, he noticed two yellow eyes staring down at him from the roof of the tennis club. There was no proof they were Napoleon's - New York is full of stray cats. He climbed up the fire escape, where, soaked, but otherwise unharmed, he found Napoleon. He picked him up and climbed back down again. "That's a mighty lucky cat" Michael told himself. As he looked up, he could see what had probably happened.
Napoleon had stepped out of the window, dropped four floors down, landed on top of the building's cloth canopy, thus breaking his fall, bounced on the heavy canvas and took a flying leap to the top of a dividing brick wall, then jumped down about twelve feet onto the tennis club. Four stories is a long fall - at least forty feet, more than enough to kill a human being - but Napoleon wasn't even sore or lame, just wet midly irratable. Michael brought him home to his grieving wife and son...
330-95
ex)...Then, all of a sudden, he noticed two yellow eyes staring down at him from the roof of the tennis club. There was no proof they were Napoleon's - New York is full of stray cats. He climbed up the fire escape, where, soaked, but otherwise unharmed, he found Napoleon. He picked him up and climbed back down again. "That's a mighty lucky cat" Michael told himself. As he looked up, he could see what had probably happened.
Napoleon had stepped out of the window, dropped four floors down, landed on top of the building's cloth canopy, thus breaking his fall, bounced on the heavy canvas and took a flying leap to the top of a dividing brick wall, then jumped down about twelve feet onto the tennis club. Four stories is a long fall - at least forty feet, more than enough to kill a human being - but Napoleon wasn't even sore or lame, just wet midly irratable. Michael brought him home to his grieving wife and son...
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