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[sinful raven]

Please be patient

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[cold shell]

well, you did successfully eliminate the present participle and your sentence still makes sense

[thin matrix]

Pretty much yeah

[cold shell]

does the exercise provide an example or something?

[thin matrix]

The gérondif and the participe présent both serve to not repeat the subject

[fluid hull]

nope lmao

😭

[cold shell]

[thin matrix]

Which is kinda considered optimal

[cold shell]

yeah, this exercise pretty much defeats the purpose of that lmao

[thin matrix]

It’s a weird exercise but I get what they want

Might be a way to weed out dangling participles in English?

You can write something like, ‘Walking slowly up to her, Lucie turned around’ where the subject of the subordinate clause is implicitly someone else. It’s frowned upon but a valid construction in English. You can’t do that in French; if the subject is different, another clause.