kadioguy
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https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/...several-bugs?p=1627880&viewfull=1#post1627880[...] In my business life I have composed articles drawing from a number of press releases and it is very easy to switch tense when you start a paragraph that draws on a different source document. As people were paying to read my prose I submitted it to a proof reader to find those errors; I don't think that the author of your document bothered.
1. Can the following explanation be applied to the blue part?
draw
v.intr.
[...]
(8) To use or call upon part of a fund or supply:
drawing on an account; drew from the experience of fellow workers.
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=draw
2. According to the example uses in the dictionary above, I think that (a) and (b) can be both used and mean the same. Am I right?
a. In my business life I have composed articles drawing from a number of press releases.
b. In my business life I have composed articles drawing on a number of press releases.