How to use an independent structure to modify a sentence within a sentence?

Question

>After one year, I quit my job, said goodbye to my friends, went to Beijing to study philosophy, participating in a lot of classes given by professors, but never having been registered as a formal student. [self-made] Will it be ambiguous to use "participating", since it is not clear in this sentence that the phrase following participate modifies "to study philosophy". So maybe it is necessary to divide it into two sentences?

Answer 1

There are two grammatically appropriate edits to this sentence. You could say "After one year, I quit my job, said goodbye to my friends, and went to Beijing to study philosophy. There, I participated in a lot of classes taught by professors, but I was never registered as a formal student." Alternatively, you could say, "After one year, I quit my job, said goodbye to my friends, and went to Beijing, where I attended philosophy classes but did not register as a formal student." This is grammatically correct but I do not recommend it since some clarification about the classes being taught by professors is lost.