Grammar, please. I'm in a total flustering situation. Plus any hip hop dancing scholarship there?

Ok.

Tomorrow I have to teach about past participle and present participle.

 

I understand the concept of those two, however what I don't understand is this:

This is an example from the book:

Equipped with a pair of binoculars. I enjoyed the beautiful sight of the hills.

The combination: Equipped with a pair of binoculars, I enjoyed the beautiful sight of the bills.

 

Then, I asked native speaker in the school where I'm teaching right now. I asked what if I changed the combination to be like this,"I was equipped with a pair of binoculars, enjoying the beautiful sight of the hills."

He said that we couldn't do that.

I asked him why.

He himself was not sure why, but he said that we couldn't change the sentence like that.

 

Is it because actually the sentence which happens first is the part that we have to change into a participle?

If, only if, some of you said that it's actually okay to change the sentence like I did, what is it called, then?

Present or past participle?

Any opinions, chingu-deul?

 

Plus, guys.

Perhaps you have read my last blog about my desire to take a design scholarship abroad,

but now actually I just realized that I want to dance more than draw.

So, any of you have any recommendations about scholarship in dancing department?

Hip hop dancing. Not balley, not modern dance, but hip hop dancing.

If I can or actually have to become a professional dancer to make money more.

Actually, I heard a church in Singapore provides that kind of study and I've seen the video clips of the church with my own eyes and a person from that church also came once in Indonesia, but stupid me I don't remember the name of the church.

Any of you knows?

 

Thank you so much for reading.

Jesus loves you.

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paper_human
#1
I think you were half-right. The first part is fine as is, I think the correct answer would be "Equipped with a pair of binoculars, I was enjoying the sight of the beautiful hills."
This is, however, if you HAVE to change the sentence and it must be in both past and present participle. If not, then what the book wrote was grammatically correct.
Also, if you want to study abroad, I'm not sure what areas you're looking to study in (I'm mostly familiar with American universities). However, for hip-hop dancing, performing arts colleges would be the best option. A renown one in New York, also in Los Angeles, is called the American Institute of Dramatic Arts. Hope I helped =]
JongKey1221
#2
If I'm correct, then the past participle in this sentece: "Equipped with a pair of binoculars, I enjoyed the beautiful sight of the hills," is "equipped" and "enjoyed." That's it. You probably can't change it because it's just unwanted words. "Equipped" is already a regular past participle itself. So to understand the way the sentence is made, you must get your brain to wrap around the sentence in a different perspective. You know what I mean? Here's the link to some help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle
And I think College of the Ozarks might also have hip-hop classes. I'm not sure though.