In graphing...

[musicgold]

Hi,

I am a bit confused with the phrase ‘in graphing’. I have seen similar structures before, but never been able to use these structure in my sentences. If I shift the first clause to the end of the sentence, it doesn’t sound right. Can you please help me understand this?

In graphing the groups separately, we obtained two distributions, each with a single mode.


Thanks,

MG

[lotus]

Hi Musicgold,

The sentence would sound more natural with "by."



--lotus

[OddThomas]

"In graphing" is abbreviated from "in the act/process of graphing" or something very similar. Here "in" means "during."

Thus this meaning: "During the act of graphing the groups separately we obtained two distributions, each with a single mode."

[musicgold]

OT and lotus,

Thanks.

MG.

[lotus]

Inverted, we get:

We obtained two single-mode distributions in graphing the groups separately.

We obtained two single-mode distributions by graphing the groups separately.


Whichever sounds more natural is a matter of choice.


--lotus

[OddThomas]

Right. I did not mean to rule out inverting the sentence(s). :)