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"With equal respect, I agree that often a sentence can be rewritten to avoid grammatical errors or unclear prose.\n\nIn your first example, for \"Hugging the postman, Delilah ripped open the box containing her ...\" you suggested changing box to envelope. But in my sample sentence, she was opening a box containing copies of her first novel ... which would not fit in an envelope. It's important that you don't change a sentence to make it grammatically correct in a way that alters the meaning.\n\nIn your second example, \"Approaching the mailman I take the newspaper\" would be awkward because you couldn't take the newspaper until you'd reached the mailman. Unless you had the gift of telekenesis.\n\nYou're right, in the sentence “Writing is the hardest job you’ll ever do,” the word \"writing\" is a noun. In “Dashing through the snow, \"dashing\" is a verb.\n\n“Seeing is believing” is a sentence since \"seeing\" is a noun and \"is believing\" is a verb phrase. You could lengthen the proverb for clarity, if your reader needed the clarification, to something like “You have to see, to be able to believe” ... but no comma there."
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