Tacoface1234
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Okay, did a little research regarding this question:
With this in mind, I do believe zeno had it right to start with. The problem with the sentence is poor construction. The participial phrase is clearly meant to modify the girl, but it can't because girl is written as an adjective. To correct the sentence, you would need to reconstruct it so that girl serves as a noun, and have it clearly modified by the participial phrase.
Well, the first bit of the sentence is not an adverb clause, as I had assumed, it's a participial phrase. This means that it cannot modify an adjective, it must modify a noun, meaning that the phrase can only be modifying painting. It cannot modify the girl.I guess the truth lies in whether there is a way to tell if these adjectives are meant to refer to the girl or the painting. One would assume "her" would refer to the girl, since the girl is the only confirmed female in the sentence, but I'm not sure that's enough to justify it.
With this in mind, I do believe zeno had it right to start with. The problem with the sentence is poor construction. The participial phrase is clearly meant to modify the girl, but it can't because girl is written as an adjective. To correct the sentence, you would need to reconstruct it so that girl serves as a noun, and have it clearly modified by the participial phrase.
Hardworking and always trying her best, the girl made her painting prettier and more detailed than the rest of the class.
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