[General] turning a clearance rate of 78.5 per cent

[Flogger]

Hello,

I have two questions regarding the following sentence:

1) what's the grammatical category of this structure? I mean what I should google to gain more information on this structure!?

2) Isn't it a dangling structure as the subject of the sentence does not match the phrase "returning ......"

The sentence was extracted from Skynews.

According to CoreLogic 2,000 auctions were held across all capitals, returning a clearance rate of 78.5 per cent.

Thank you in advance

 

[jutfrank]

1) I imagine you're asking about the part after the comma. Search for 'participle phrase'.

2) No, there's nothing dangling there. Do you understand what the sentence means? You can understand the subject of returning to be 2,000 auctions.