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Absolute Phrases

Absolute Phrases. Mrs. Henson English III AP * Adapted from Sentence Composing for High School Students by Don Killgallon. Overview. Absolute phrases are ALMOST complete sentences. Absolutes describe the rest of the sentence.

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Absolute Phrases

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  1. Absolute Phrases Mrs. Henson English III AP * Adapted from Sentence Composing for High School Students by Don Killgallon

  2. Overview • Absolute phrases are ALMOST complete sentences. • Absolutes describe the rest of the sentence. • You can make any absolute a complete sentence by adding was or were. • Many absolutes begin with possessive pronouns. • Can occur as: • Sentence Openers • Subject-Verb Split • Sentence Closers

  3. Models Without Absolutes With Absolutes She returned to her bench, her face showing all the unhappiness that had suddenly overtaken her. Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy About the bones, ants were ebbing away, their pincers full of meat. Dorris Lessing, African Stories • She returned to her bench. • About the bones, ants were ebbing away.

  4. Placement of Absolute Phrases • Sentence Openers • His hands raw, he reached a flat place at the top. • Richard Connell, “The Most Dangerous Game” • Subject-Verb Splits • High in the air, a little figure, his hands thrust in his short jacket pockets, stood staring out to sea. • Katherine Mansfield, “The Voyage” • Sentence Closers • Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle, their livers removed, their fins cut off, and their hides skinned out, and their flesh cut into strips for salting. • Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  5. Unscrambling #1 • while Buck struggled in fury • then the rope tightened mercilessly • and his great chest panting • his tongue lolling out of his mouth Then the rope tightened mercilessly while Buck struggled in fury, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, and his great chest panting. -Jack London, The Call of the Wild

  6. Unscrambling #2 • I • each set upon a carved wooden base • looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design • which held delicate-looking statues • of horses and birds, small vases and bowls I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. -Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  7. Unscrambling #3 • her shoulders drooping a little • her glasses winking in the sunlight • she was now standing arms akimbo • her cocked to one side She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight. -Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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