Uses of the participle – part II
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👉🏻 Participles are also used in absolute phrases with a noun or pronoun going before them.
God willing, we shall meet again.
The fog having lifted, the plane took off.

🔎Notes:
Each of these absolute phrases can be transformed into a subordinate clause.
🔖If God is willing, we shall meet again.
🔖When the fog had lifted, the plane took off.

🔮 A common error
As the participle is a verbal adjective, it should have a proper subject of reference. If the subject is missing or a wrong subject is used the whole sentence will be wrong.
The following sentences are wrong because the participle has no proper subject.

🔖Standing at the gate, a scorpion stung him. (This sentence means that it was the scorpion that was standing at the gate.)
🔖Going up the hill, an old temple was seen.

💡 We should, therefore, rewrite these sentences as given below.

🔖While he was standing at the gate, a scorpion stung him. OR Standing at the gate, he was stung by a scorpion.
🔖When we went up the hill, we saw an old temple.

More examples are given below:
🔻Incorrect: Being a rainy day, we did not go out.
🔺Correct: It being a rainy day, we did not go out.
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