While walking/While I was walking

[Barman]

Which one of the following sentences is correct?

1) While I was walking there, I saw a dead ox.

2) While walking there I saw a dead ox.

 

[Yankee]

Both OK.

 

[Barman]

What makes you think one might be incorrect?

I learnt that generally, the participle should be employed with a noun or pronoun which it qualifies.The omission of such a noun or pronoun is wrong. For example,

A) Standing on the shore, my eye roams over the sea.

In this sentence, standing apprears to qualify eye, while it means a person. The correct form should, therefore, be-As I'm standing on the shore, my eye roams over the sea. So I thought that 1) is correct and 2) is incorrect.

 

[Phaedrus]

A) Standing on the shore, my eye roams over the sea.

In this sentence, standing apprears to qualify eye . . .

But in (2), "walking" relates to "I," just as it should; "I" immediately follows the participial clause of which it is the understood subject.

 

[Tdol]

A) Standing on the shore, my eye roams over the sea.

Many would not be concerned by this.

 

[Barman]

Many would not be concerned by this.

Is the sentence 'A)' grammatically correct?