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This article was first published on the 21st of April, 2021 by Patrick Carpen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last updated: November 16, 2021 at 15:25 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you make a mistake in your English <\/a>writing and speaking sometimes, don’t beat yourself up in the head about it. Even the University gets it wrong sometimes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s because the English language<\/a> is so extremely complicated and hard to master with all its rules and exceptions to the rules, its complicated spelling, and its borrowing from other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if you haven’t managed to master the English language<\/a>, don’t beat yourself up in the head about it. You’re not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days ago, I was studying an English Grammar Course administered by a US University on coursera.org. I forgot the name of the University, but I’ll tell you later. The course was a four-week course in conjunctions, adverbials etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at this question, as you can see from the picture above, that they gave to me during one of their videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which sentence below is the correct way to reduce the adverb clause in this sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sentence: Because Molly stayed up late last night, she has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 1: Staying up late last night, Molly has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 2: Because staying up late last night, Molly has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now option 2 is obviously wrong because of bad wording. However, is option 1 really correct? I submitted it, and they said it was! But it isn’t!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look carefully at the sentence again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staying up late last night, Molly has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that make sense to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The independent clause, “staying up late last night” is referring to an action which happened in the past. So how can you use a present participle to refer to an action which happened in the past? That is, since last night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look at the original sentence again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Molly stayed up late last night, she has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The verb in the independent clause of the original sentence is “stayed” which is past tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the correct reduction of this adverb clause to a participial phrase should be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having stayed up late last night<\/em>, Molly has been tired all day today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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