having been written

Well,Beees–,

If I make change a bit,like,

Having been delayed by load shedding, I couldn’t start up my computer on time that caused me to come at the forum so late!

Do you think it makes sense further awkward?

Again, ‘come at’ a phrasal verb that means-to reach.

I am happy to see all experts are here whom they are well in illogical dangling modifiers.

Not having been notified of the forum discussion, I arrived here late.

It does mean, first sentence had happened before the second one occurred.[/b

Expecting comments.
Kind regard.

'load shedding; is not natural as a noun at all. You would still need to say ‘by a vehicle which shed its load on the road’ or simply say ‘by traffic problems’ or similar.

‘starting up a computer’ is not something that takes place ‘on time’ so that part isn’t logical.

As I’ve already say ’ coming to a forum late’ is not logical.

[b]Having been delayed by traffic problems, I was later than usual logging on to the forum.

Not having been notified of the forum discussion, I logged on too late to take part.[/b]

I see!

A lot of stylistic matters have yet to solve here.

Thanks.

The preposition ‘to’ is better in combination with ‘came’ since it indicates movement/direction towards something.

The guideline you are referring to seems more connected with time (rather than location OR movement/direction):

[i]- I’ll meet you in New York at 4 o’clock on Friday.

  • I visited New York in 2003.[/i]

Your guideline might work with location sometimes, Ahmedlyton, but definitely not always, so I’m not sure it’s actually a good one to use.

- I work in the Human Resources Department at IBM.

In the sentence above, IBM is bigger than the Human Resources Department, so your guideline doesn’t work there. But in the following sentence, your guideline does seem to work:

- I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
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Hi Esl Espert,

Exactly so, that I wanted to indicate here where you seem a bit more ahead than I.

In TOEFL, these types of problems are frequent.

Well, what about the “come at”? Couldn’t we just use here, I mean in that context? (previous post).