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Q: Can we use participle clauses as adverbial modifiers?

MJ AdaMost of the time, participle clauses are used in sentences like the ones that I have written below (all of which feature present participles): [1] Walking the dog, she breathed the fresh air. [2] He saw the woman walking the dog. [3] He saw the walking woman. However, on occasion, I will encoun...

 
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Q: Is using “pretty damn spicy” to mean “actually very spicy” proper?

U12-F̉͋̅̾̇orwardI often say something like: This soup is pretty damn spicy! I am wondering now if this is actually proper grammar. On Urban Dictionary, it says the meaning of it is “approximately”, but when I use this term I don’t use it for “approximately”. Like the above example, I used it for saying “pretty...

 
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