Friday, July 4, 2014

grammar - Is this use of present participle grammatically correct?




We are a Zhongguancun-based English training school looking for native English speakers from the US and Canada. If you are interested in this position. Please send your CV and photo to [email address]. For more info, pls check: [URL]




It seems like a sentence element; what does it act as? Why not two sentences?


Answer




This participial construction is 100% correct and natural. The participle is used as an attribute to the subject of the main clause, "we" (or "a Zhongguancun-based English training school", but that doesn't matter because it results in the same meaning). It gives extra information about "we", just as an adjective would. This attribute is placed after its "head" (the noun or pronoun it modifies) because it is a sort of apposition.


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