Grammar/Writing question (for those who have very good Grammar)

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<p>1) it correct to say:
My parents, giving me a lot of presents since I was a kid, are the reason of my greed.</p>

<p>Or should it be "My parents, who gave me,......"
Or are both correct?</p>

<p>2) Is it correct to say:
I was late for my soccer training, waiting for my friend for 20 minutes to arrive</p>

<p>For sentences like that, can I like invert it to be "Waiting for my friend for 20 mins to arrive, I was late....." then check if it's correct or not?</p>

<p>-- Here's the question that made me ask these questions:
That I have little interest in art is not the fault of mu parents, (taking) me to art exhibits and galleries from the time I was ten years old.</p>

<p>(taking) is the error</p>

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<p>Now these two questions have the same exact idea, but I do not seem to understand any of them. The two sentences look very messed up to me.</p>

<p>3) A great gray owl (flying) low across a forest clearing, its wings beating quitely and its ultra sensitive ears tuned to the faint sounds made by a small creatures concealed under leaves</p>

<p>4) A thick growth of sunflowers (standing) ten feet tall, their brown heads drooping over the fence with the weight of their seeds</p>

<p>Both gerunds/verbs/participles or whatever they're called are wrong from some reason.
But why? What's the correct form of the sentence? And how come there's just a comma between the two parts of the sentence and not any connector?
Does the second part of each sentence work as a modifier/participle?</p>

<p>Sorry for the too many questions. Any help or effort is greatly appreciated.
Thanks :D</p>

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<p>My parents, [who gave] me a lot of presents since I was a kid, are the reason [for] my greed.</p>

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<p>This sentence needs to be completely rewritten / restructured to be grammatical.</p>

<p>For 3 and 4, flew and stood. There’s a no conjunction because the second clause is dependent, not independent.</p>

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<p>and on the question that made you ask these- [taking] is ambiguous, as we don’t know which noun it is modifying. it should be [who took], to clear the confusion.</p>

<p>although, technically there’s no way it could modify the subject * because then it would have to say [taking myself] instead of [taking me].</p>

<p>but I’m just a high school student, not the monstrosity that is known as ETS</p>