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[dean_burrito]

Getting up early, the dog barked.

It is just confusing to me. Is dog the subject? Is there an understood subject? Some of my co-teachers say it is a correct sentence. Others say it is not.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

If the dog got up early it's correct. If it's someone else who got up early it's a dangling participle.

[FMPJ]

It means the dog barked simultaneously with its act of getting up. More logical would be:

Having gotten up early, the dog barked.

There's still the odd issue of cause: There's not really a logical connection between the two ideas, so it doesn't feel very natural to place them in one sentence.

[aka Dave]

You're right, there's no logical connection between getting up early and barking. The barking implies something woke the dog and he barked in response (like a burglar!)

(Early one morning/Before dawn),The dog awoke spasmodically, and barked/started barking/growled.

[bassexpander]

[Oliver]

[jadarite]

It's like "getting up early" is functioning as a modified adverb (I don't know what modified adverb would be in linguistic terms). Maybe call it a "relative adverb" (see below for reasons why).

Korean and Japanese double up on words that we would normally write out with other words.

Example A: A Korean (In Korean it would be "Korean Person", 한국인 )

They also do this with relative pronouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun

Example B: A person who ate pizza (Japanese at least write it out like "pizza ate person" ). I have seen similar things with Korean.

The idea is that you combine 2 simple sentences to make up one (as Oliver pointed out). We use who, that, where, which, and when to connect these 2 sentences.

So, it looks to me as if the original poster quite possibly got this from a textbook based in an Asian country. However, it's not that bizarre of a sentence and makes practical sense.

[fancypants]

[zpeanut]