How can I punctuate participle phrases?
What are some rules for separating participle with comma? By the way, I write a participle phrase close to the noun I modify, and sometimes the noun isn’t. I wonder if a comma is required.
Do both sentences require a comma?
In their dressing gowns, Rose and Martin stand by the window (,) looking the scene unchanged from the night before: the storm continues.
Rose and Martin watch the storm, and not the window. I don’t know about this, but I think that says something.
They view the top of the cliffs where scores of youths are positioned, using the advantage of height for an aerial bombardment of rocks.
Where there is no object or indirect object, so I think the comma is unnecessary.
The first sentence usually requires a comma. The second does not.
In their dressing gowns, Rose and Martin stand by the window (,) watching the scene unchanged from the night before: the storm continues.
Omitting the comma would mean the window is watching the scene. So, does it mean that the windows are watching? The comma clarifies that Rose and Martin and watching. No, one could imagine a window watching a scene, but try replacing window with a dog/cat would make life hella uncomfortable.
How do they reach the top of the cliffs where scores of youths are positioned (,) using the advantage of height for an aerial bombardment of rocks.
If you don’t want a comma in a sentence, it’s redundant because adding it is construed as changing
the meaning of the sentence.
Where, how, and how can one write, just as I really should,?
How bout: In their dressing gowns, Rose and Martin stood in their dressing gowns, peering out the window and watching the
storm replicate all night night.
