present-participial phrase

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  Anas Mahfut

  Indonesia’s first two confirmed COVID-19 patients claim that media coverage and discussion on social media have taken a greater toll on them than the disease itself, saying that numerous breaches of privacy and the resulting stigma have left them “mentally drained”. (The Jakarta Post)
  Is it just the same as this one?
  Saying that numerous breaches of privacy and the resulting stigma have left them “mentally drained”, Indonesia’s first two confirmed COVID-19 patients claim that media coverage and discussion on social media have taken a greater toll on them than the disease itself. more »

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  Sherry Olson

  I don't understand if the use of the -ing form in this sentence is correct:
  
  Our current study included the determination of BDE209, which had a higher LOQ (90 pg g-1 ww), implying an overestimation in the UB scenario.
  
  Does this mean that the LOQ is implying the overestimation or is it correct? more »

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  Cherilyn Orta-Middendorf

  I've been trying to understand the proper usage of present-participle, and I have read many articles in the past few days. One of which, I hope, helped me to understand it properly. Like if it's a "dangling participle" it comes out as confusing or impossible.
  In the article, if I can remember correctly, stated, "She ran up the stairs, looking through each room." Which is incorrect, as the blogger wrote.
  If this were the intentional meaning and phrasing, each door would have to be placed by each stair. That sentence, as the blogger showed, would be rewritten, as they had done, into something more comprehendable.
  I understood that when I choose to think of the comma as the word "while", because present-participle is continuous and "occurring" as you have wrote.
  So, when someone told me, that I wrote a sentence that was incorrect, which essentially said (excluding the names that were written and replaced with pronouns - also a different object) "He followed her gaze, seeing a teddy bear." One can't simultaneously follow someone's gaze and at the same time see an object, because they both can't occur at the same time. Unless one could simply split their eyes, and see in multiple directions. They can occur as "step-by-step" though. "He followed her gaze and then saw a teddy bear." Which is still a poor sentence.
  Though occasionally, I can't always mentally replace the comma with "while" for it doesn't always work. But I guess that it often depends on the sentence itself. more »

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  Paul Mathews

  Short and Sweet

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