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[chengkeh798]

Hi, Ron, I remember a rule that you have mentioned as " no two initial modifiers for the same thing"
ex
Coming home from school, riding my bike, I was knocked down by the wind.----incorrect, wrong

can you post a link to where i wrote this? thanks.

Hi, Ron, here is the post in which wrote about two initial modifiers
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... 04-15.html
And here is what you wrote
when we say "don't use two initial modifiers", we are talking about something like this:
Coming home from school, riding my bike, I was knocked down by the wind.
here, "coming home from school" and "riding my bike" are both genuinely initial modifiers, attempting to describe "I".

and in the ''Thursdays with Ron', 2011/8/25
there is a problem from Gmat prep
In the past several years, astronomers have detected more than 80 planets, most of them at least as large as Jupiter, cycling other stars.
In this sentence, there are two "following modifiers", and it seems that the subject of cycling is astronomers for "cycling other stars" is a comma ving modifier.
I am little confused.
Thanks a lot!

[RonPurewal]

initial modifiers are not the same as following modifiers!
MOST modifiers follow the things they modify -- so, accordingly, following modifiers need more "freedom" to be placed in different arrangements.

(yes, the choice you eliminated has essentially the same configuration as the one i was talking about in that quote.)