grammatical structure
1. The mordern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

What does "torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds" modify and what's the grammatical structure of this sentence?

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grammatical structure
1. The mordern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

What does "torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds" modify and what's the grammatical structure of this sentence?

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Here "torn" means disrupted by the noise. The  city is given  human characteristics by using the verb "torn".

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I believe the " torn by gases the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds" modifies the " monstrous edifices and dark, narrow streets ". 

 

I think It is dependent clause that can not form a sentence on its own ( gives us incomplete thought or idea). It is part of another dependent clause contained within an independent clause.

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