keannu
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These two statements appear in a Korean English grammar book, and I doubt the two underlined. Are they true?
As far as I learned here, participle phrases describe not the main clause itself, but the subject of the main clause. And I doubt where 2 is from, which I can't find in any native grammar.
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1.Participles functions as an adjective, but participle phrases functions as an adverb to describe the whole main clause.
2.Participle phrases are a phrase that simply converts an adverb clause "Conjunction+Subject+Verb" to "V+ing" and makes a sentence brief and vivid, but is not used a lot in conversation.
ex)When he saw me, he got so embarrassed.
=>Seeing me, he got so embarrassed.
As far as I learned here, participle phrases describe not the main clause itself, but the subject of the main clause. And I doubt where 2 is from, which I can't find in any native grammar.
gz163
1.Participles functions as an adjective, but participle phrases functions as an adverb to describe the whole main clause.
2.Participle phrases are a phrase that simply converts an adverb clause "Conjunction+Subject+Verb" to "V+ing" and makes a sentence brief and vivid, but is not used a lot in conversation.
ex)When he saw me, he got so embarrassed.
=>Seeing me, he got so embarrassed.