Rhinoceroses

A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed. A) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are...

Prepositional phrase

Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in...

To scoobydooby, Thanks for your kindly reply. It does help to clear my doubt. I can understand your point, your explanation is very clear and reminds me that "ing" modifier can modify the entire preceding clause, too. However, I am now wondering, as what goelmohit2002 has mentioned. "...