Error tested- Modifiers B. The government predicts that costs will be greatly reduced for consumers and businesses that make a large number of long-distance calls by the Federal Communication Commission's telephone rate cuts, [ here it looks as if the federal commision is modifying long distance ca...

yeah , i am saying that original sentence number 1 is wrong , where present participle is used.

okay ma'am... but still i have a point .. I think that second one is right. In first one, present participle phrase indicates ongoing action with respect to the main action of the principal clause. hence, it indicates that the cannon is still shooting dead chickens ......Because the present particip...

present participle and relative clause

1. A cannon shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large . 2 . A cannon that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of ...

thanks ...Ron new world monkeys, with their prehensile tails, are able to swing through trees without occupying their hands. vs. with their prehensile tails, new world monkeys are able to swing through trees without occupying their hands. these modifiers are best thought of as adverbial, because the...

Thank you Ron... can also write sentences in which the opening prepositional modifier is unambiguously acting as an adjective. for example, here is one: Of pure Blackfoot Indian heritage, jonas is eligible to receive free college scholarships from the tribal government. in this sentence, the opening...