Attendant( or Accompanying) Circumstances

[Shinya Maki]

Hello everyone.

The term “Attendant( or Accompanying) Circumstances” use of the participial construction is applied in grammar books published in Japan for the explanation of the latter halves of the following sentences.
(a) The train starts at two, arriving in London at nine.
(b) He fired, wounding one of the bandits.

My questions:
1. Did you, as a native speaker, learn this term when you were a student?
2. Who, or what book, is or was the well-known grammarian that uses or used this term for English grammar?

Best regards,
Shinya Maki

[danmahaffey]

Hello everyone.

The term “Attendant( or Accompanying) Circumstances” use of the participial construction is applied in grammar books published in Japan for the explanation of the latter halves of the following sentences.
(a) The train starts at two, arriving in London at nine.
(b) He fired, wounding one of the bandits.

My questions:
1. Did you, as a native speaker, learn this term when you were a student?
2. Who, or what book, is or was the well-known grammarian that uses or used this term for English grammar?

Best regards,
Shinya Maki

Attendant circumstances is a grammatical term I am not familiar with, although I understand the concept. I was able to learn that attendant circumstances is defined in Black's Law Dictionary as the "facts surrounding an event," but that doesn't help the understanding of grammar, does it?

The sentence has the rough form, "someone does/did/will do this, leading to that," where "leading to that" is the attendant circumstances, but I think you already know this. (Example: Shinya Maki asked an interesting question, stumping a forum member.)

Is there something in particular I can help you with?

[Temico]

Hello everyone.

The term “Attendant( or Accompanying) Circumstances” use of the participial construction is applied in grammar books published in Japan for the explanation of the latter halves of the following sentences.
(a) The train starts at two, arriving in London at nine.
(b) He fired, wounding one of the bandits.

My questions:
1. Did you, as a native speaker, learn this term when you were a student?
2. Who, or what book, is or was the well-known grammarian that uses or used this term for English grammar?

Best regards,
Shinya Maki
I have never heard of "Attendant( or Accompanying) Circumstances” before. It could be one of those new-fangled definitions cropping up every now and then. Have you noticed that,
(a) The train starts at two, arriving in London at nine.= The train starts at two,thereby arriving in London at nine.
(b) He fired, wounding one of the bandits.= He fired, thereby wounding one of the bandits.?

[Pete]

A Google search turned up a reference to "attendant circumstances" in the 1908 grammar book by Fowler, The King's English. That book can be found on line at bartleby.com.

The phrase is certainly not one that I would ever have thought of using; I'd imagine that the authors of your English books are using respected but quite old references, and thus they are picking up some terms that are not much used these days.