[Grammar] was broken, having dropped from the shelf

[Oceanlike]

Is this sentence correct?

- Her prized trophy was damaged, having dropped from the shelf?

It sounds okay to me. If it is correct, my using of 'having dropped' is what kind of tense?

Grammar is so confusing.

Thank you. :-D

 

[Matthew Wai]

It is a perfect participle modifying 'trophy' in 'Having dropped from the shelf, her trophy was damaged'.

 

[Tarheel]

It wasn't dropped. If fell off the shelf.

 

[Tdol]

So you could use having fallen.

 

[Oceanlike]

It is a perfect participle

I don't know what is perfect participle so I don't understand your explanation. I'll have to find out more about it.

Thank you!

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't know what [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] a perfect participle is so I don't understand your explanation. I'll have to find out more about it.

Thank you!

Note my correction to your word order above.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I don't know what is perfect participle

'The perfect participle indicates that the time of the action that it refers to is before that of the verb in the main clause'—quoted from http://www.grammaring.com/the-forms-of-the-participle