8.121 present participle: simultaneous events

If you want to say that someone is doing or experiencing two things at the same time, you mention one of them in the main clause and the other in a clause containing a present participle.

• Laughing and shrieking, the crowd rushed under the nearest trees.
• Jane watched, weeping, from the doorway.
• Feeling a little foolish, Pluskat hung up.
• Walking about, you notice something is different.
• People stared at her. Seeing herself in a shop window, she could understand why.