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As BobShilling says, the simplest (and smoothest) way is just, "So I told her."
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This is one of those situations in which "being" serves as an active verb.
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Ah, but that second half is not a clause; its (implied) subject ("He") is shared with the first half.
It's inescapably clear that "pushed him into the table" is intimately related to "shoved him in the back".
All in all, the "spliced" sentence works very well in speech and in not-very-formal writing.
This kind of phrasing is something most of use freely, if not necessarily every day.
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"Electric" devices are powered by electricity; "electronic" ones are generally controlled by electronic components (mostly solid-state, nowadays).
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You certainly can, but your sentences feel a bit strange because of the two unrelated adverbs at the end.
The adverb of place ("here") and the adverb of time ("recently") don't conflict with each other in terms of meaning or appropriateness, but their occurrence together causes a "hitch" in reading the sentence. It might be better if they were separated by a comma.
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No such regional distinction here.
One "builds" a house or a tower; one "makes" (or "fashions") a sword or a spear.
(If it's something you can pick up and carry, it's not something you "build".)
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"What do you wish I had told him?"
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"What would you have wanted me to tell him?"
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Conclusion?
Not without some context, thank you.
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1) "Birds sitting in trees sang sadly."
That's all right, but note: "The birds, sitting in trees, sang sadly."
Better: "Birds sat in trees and sang sadly."
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No.
Try "the other two" or "the remaining two".
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