Maybo
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1. Coming home, I refused to sleep in my teenage bedroom.
Your question should be why the writer starts the sentence with Coming home.
It's basically another way of saying 'When I came home'.
For that meaning, I'd strongly prefer the sentence with "on" or "upon" before "coming home."
1a) On coming home, I refused to sleep in my teenage bedroom.
1b) Upon coming home, I refused to sleep in my teenage bedroom.
Yes, I do. I am supposing that the intended meaning of (1) is that the process of coming home was complete at the time the refusal took place.Don't you think those prepositions give a stronger sense that the second clause takes place after the first?
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