perambulatory

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Each clause begins with a present participle (called a perambulatory phrase) and ends with a comma.

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  1. Of or relating to perambulation; walking or moving about. His mind took an apparently sharp impression from it [the water-cart], but lost the recollection of this perambulatory shower, before its next reappearance, as completely as did the street itself, along which the heat so quickly strewed white dust again. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi.

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