[General] Present Participial phrase - Greeting us with a warm and friendly smile...

[DANAU]

Hi.

I am trying to start a sentence with present participial phrase. Please check if both sentences below are acceptable?

#1 - “Greeting us with a warm and friendly smile was the receptionist at the concierge.”


#2 - ”Greeting us with a warm and friendly smile, the receptionist welcomed us to check into the hotel.”

 

[Rover_KE]

#1 is not good; #2 is fine (if you had helpfully numbered them).

 

[DANAU]

#1 is not good; #2 is fine (if you had helpfully numbered them).

OK Rover_KE, I will number my sentences in future.

 

[tedmc]

#1 is not good; #2 is fine (if you had helpfully numbered them).

By "not good", do you mean No.1 is not correct?
The beginning phrase is not a participial phrase but it looks okay to me.

 

[DANAU]

By "not good", do you mean No.1 is not correct?
The beginning phrase is not a participial phrase but it looks okay to me.

Other examples similar to #1 could probably be as follows:
”Falling on our roofs were heavy droplets of rain.”
“Approaching us was the perfect storm...”

I think I have caused confusion by indicating that both sentences are starting off with participial phrases.

 

[jutfrank]

Only sentence 2 is what you're trying to practise but I don't like the example much because both clauses are saying more or less the same thing.