[Grammar] English transgressive?

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tom3m

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Having sat down, she began to cry.
Having been sold, the slave followed his new master.
Standing over there, he was watching his ex-wife.


The examples above should be examples of the so called transgressive (or better - of a translation of them). My question is if there is anything such as transgressive also in English. If there isn't, what do you call the structures in bold above?

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philo2009

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No, the term 'transgressive' is not used in English grammar. The bold type parts are termed participial (or simply 'participle') phrases.
 
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