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Not sure how to best put this in words, but I'll give an example below. This is from a boilerplate text of a company:

ABC is a manufacturing company, partnering with DEF to...

I would be inclined to rather say "ABC is a manufacturing company that partners with DEF to...", or to put a full stop after company and then continue in another sentence.

Is there any grammatical guidance on this?

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  • Why do you think there is something wrong with the original version? "I'm a teacher of English, teaching second grade" sounds fine to me.
    – oerkelens
    Commented Oct 16, 2014 at 13:35
  • John Lennon was a good song lyricist. But he spoke in a strong Liverpool accent and idiom, notwithstanding his grammar-school education.
    – WS2
    Commented Oct 16, 2014 at 13:58
  • The original connotes that the partnership is important (by implication, to NN's own standing or even viability). oerlikens' look-alike doesn't have this nuance as the second statement is an unremarkable (totally unsurprising) adding of detail to the first. Your second suggestion removes most of the nuance; two sentences would remove it completely, with two separate statements (that are of course still not unrelated).
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Oct 16, 2014 at 14:07
  • The partnering version focuses on what ABC is doing (namely, partnering). The that partners version focuses on the kind of company ABC is (i.e. one that partners with DEF).
    – Lawrence
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 13:40

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It does make sense, although there are better-sounding alternatives, for example:

ABC, a manufacturing company, is partnering with DEF to...

However, the second example given in the question:

"ABC is a manufacturing company that partners with DEF to..."

would probably make more sense written as:

"ABC is a manufacturing company that has partnered with DEF to..."

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    Please add sources for your claims. Otherwise it is just your opinion.
    – Helmar
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 13:37
  • ... And not wholly mine.
    – Edwin Ashworth
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 13:42

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