pushing or pushed ?

[Zoe2008]

After pushing / pushed the factory, the goods will be ready for inspection on 22 April.

 

[emsr2d2]

After pushing / pushed the factory, the goods will be ready for inspection on 22 April.

I don't understand what "to push the factory" means. Whatever the correct verb is, you would use "after verb+ing".

 

[Tdol]

Pushing = putting some pressure on them?

 

[BobK]

I imagine emsr2d2's problem in guessing what 'pushing the factory' may have arisen from the fact that the participle's dangling. It can be silly to ban all dangling participles everywhere (though it's a safe poilcy ito avoid them in an exam!) - but there are times when they hinder communication; and I think this is one.

b

 

[emsr2d2]

I imagine emsr2d2's problem in guessing what 'pushing the factory' may have arisen from the fact that the participle's dangling. It can be silly to ban all dangling participles everywhere (though it's a safe poilcy ito avoid them in an exam!) - but there are times when they hinder communication; and I think this is one.

b

I'm pretty sure my problem in guessing the meaning didn't stem from a participle, dangling or otherwise.

You can push the owners, the employees, the workers etc of a factory (in which case it would mean, as previously suggested, put pressure on them) but unless you're Superman, you can't actually push a factory!

 

[tedtmc]

After pushing / pushed the factory, the goods will be ready for inspection on 22 April.

After putting pressure on the/pressing the factory, we have been informed that the goods will be ready for inspection on 22 April.

The goods cannot put pressure on the factory, it is we who put pressure.

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