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Absolute Phrase
Absolute Phrase
While an absolute phrase often does contain a participial, it does not have to.
Examples :
His hands tugging on his mother’s shirttail, the little boy asked his mother to
buy a toy.
Reny ran onto the hill, beads of sweat forming on her forehead.
The supervisor from the head office looked the machine over carefully, the
name tag pinned on his shirt pocket.