Idioms

[suri_c]

could you please tell me why these sentences are wrong?

1. Resulting from his effort, the company grew.
2. While in childhood, i played baseball.
3. With only 10% of the vote, the party did not win the election.
4. Grass grew fast because of the sun shining.
5. A rising of prices at the gas pump is making me nervous.

[vscid]

1. Resulting from his effort, the company grew. - 'RESULTING FROM' is unidiomatic. Should be 'As a result of '
2. While in childhood, i played baseball. - While in childhood' is unidiomatic.
3. With only 10% of the vote, the party did not win the election. - dont know why this's wrong. (Please comment Stacy)
4. Grass grew fast because of the sun shining. - better to use 'shining sun'
5. A rising of prices at the gas pump is making me nervous. - 'rise of prices' is better.

[esledge]

1. I agree with vscid: As a result of his effort, the company grew.

2. As a child, I played baseball.

3. "with" is a prepositional phase, so ask yourself what it modifies. Either "The party (with only 10% of the vote) did not win" or "The party did not win (with only 10% of the vote)." The latter is terrible, and the ambiguity in general is to be avoided. I think "Receiving only 10% of the vote, the party did not win" would work, as the modifier clearly modifies the party.

4. The adverb "quickly" is required to modify "grew" instead of the adjective "fast." I agree with vscid: "shining sun" is preferable to "sun shining." In English, we tend to put the adjective first, noun second. For example, "brick" is a noun, "house" is a noun, but when we talk about a "brick house," brick now plays the role of modifier: what kind of house? In your sentence, if the sun made the grass grow, we should use the modified noun "shining sun." If you mean that "the shining" was what caused the grass to grow, then say that: "Grass grew quickly because of the shining of the sun."

5. The increase in prices at the gas pump is making me nervous. (this would be better than "the rise of prices")