 Re: letter to lord chesterfield
Remember what I said in the previous answer : when you "list" items, they must be joined by "and" (or another co-ordinator, as appropriate). So to make the first one grammatical you must say Looking up and seeing me, he smiled. With more than two items it's just the final two which need "and" : Looking up, seeing me, and understanding that I wasn't angry, he smiled.
The second one is not possible with the same meaning. You could say : Looking up, he saw me smiling. But then it was me who was smiling, not him and the construction is different. |