The conveyed meaning -- that crime was leading to a rise in property values -- is strange.

aditya8062 wrote:thanks gmat guru
but i am finding this little hard to reconcile .
i agree with this following quote of yours :

The conveyed meaning -- that crime was leading to a rise in property values -- is strange.

now what is preventing me to see the " FIVE FLEDGLING SEA EAGLES" example in that light ?
i mean i can say that FIVE FLEDGLING SEA EAGLES cannot bring to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975

kindly help me understand
thanks and regards

it is in fact because the FIVE FLEDGLING SEA EAGLES left their nests in western Scotland this summer that led to decrease in their number .

aditya8062 wrote:thanks again Gmat guru
plz also tell me as how do i reconcile the above rule with following sentence :the high-powered cameras on the new satellite took detailed pictures of the martian surface, expanding astronomers' knowledge of the geological processes taking place on the "red planet".

in this sentence will it be logical to say the high powered cameras are expanding astronomers' knowledge of the geological processes taking place on the "red planet"?

thanks and regards

aditya8062 wrote:thanks gmat guru
thinking on these lines can i make following interpretation about this sentence :Jim became the CFO of the company, increasing his pay significantly

jim became the CFO of the company and this action led to the increment of his salary .

RON said :the point of these modifiers is to modify the action of the preceding clause, as you have stated. while it is often true that the clause's subject can serve as a literal subject for the -ing action, that doesn't always have to be the case -- basically, the action must be modified, and the subject has to be in some way directly relevant to the -ing action.
here's another example:
the high-powered cameras on the new satellite took detailed pictures of the martian surface, expanding astronomers' knowledge of the geological processes taking place on the "red planet".
in this sentence, it's definitely inappropriate to say that the cameras themselves expanded the astronomers' knowledge. however, the action of taking detailed pictures expanded their knowledge, and the cameras, in turn, performed that action -- making this sentence acceptable.