About participle phrases

[jshin]

Please tell me the difference.

1. I sent a file to IBM listing cartons.
2. I sent a file listing cartons to IBM.
3. I sent a file to a warehouse listing cartons.

Thanks.

[Heba]

I think it would be less ambiguous if you wrote it as:-

"I sent to IBM a file listing cartons."

[Rusty]

Please tell me the difference.

1. I sent a file to IBM listing cartons.
2. I sent a file listing cartons to IBM.
3. I sent a file to a warehouse listing cartons.

Thanks.
Position determines importance. The more important phrase comes first.
1. I sent a file to IBM listing cartons.
2. I sent a file listing cartons to IBM.
3. I sent a file to a warehouse listing cartons. (This sentence is awkward. The distance between a file and its modifier, listing cartons, makes us wonder whether the file listed cartons or the warehouse listed cartons).