(The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction)
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| Weather permitting, we shall go to the country. | , . |
| It being very cold, we could not go skiing. | , . |
| It being pretty late, we went upstairs. | , . |
| The sun having risen, we continued our way. | , . |
| The task completed, he left. | , . |
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| He walked carefully, his boots creaking at every step. | ; . |
| continued his work, his assistant helping him. | , . |
with, , (the Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction):
| With inflation rate going down, the buying behavior has changed. | , . |
| The territory extends for about 200 miles, with breadth varying from 50 to 100 miles. | 200 , 50 100 . |
(the Nominative Absolute Construction / the Prepositional Absolute Construction).
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The Nominative Absolute Construction:
| Dinner over, he went to his room. | , . |
| went home alone, his heart full of excitement. | ; . |
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The Prepositional Absolute Construction:
| I found him waiting for me, with his hat in his hand. | , ; . |
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1. Sometimes he looked like a little boy, his lips pushed out.
2. had engineered his injury, every elaborate step leading up to it.
3. He sat inside a kind of barricade his bag on one chair, his suit coat on another.
4. Then, his wallet empty, he went shopping and invited people to dinner.
5. I saw Rocky grope feebly for the table, a look of relief coming into the poor chappies face.
6. There was no money, Hilbert having used all he possessed.
7. His exams over, Adam came home.
8. He reminds me a bit of Dave, he being on the lorries too.
9. Ann sitting in the crook of his arm, he picked up the paper, stomach clutching, heart making it apparent to him that he possessed a heart in there in the cage of his ribs, sensations he had every morning now.
10. This was unknown to Dean Miller, it having happened twenty-seven years before he was born.
11. In fact, Japan has one of the most generous maternity and childcare policies, with childcare leave being mandatory for mothers, and healthcare for infants as well as expectant mothers being free.
12. He recalled his childhood as a glassed-in place, with grown-ups rushing past talking to him, making changes.
13. She was looking ahead of her at Betty walking towards them with Kelly in the carriage and Karen walking alongside.
14. It was a gloomy, gray November day with leaves trailing about everywhere.
15. I recognized every hedgerow as a refuge where 1 had panted my lungs out, with the grass going in and out of focus.
16. He observed her reflectively, his face troubled.
17. After a light supper they adjourned to the library for coffee and liqueurs, their conversation revolving round the war.
18. He passed a line of cars, their windows opaque, their gleaming surfaces bouncing back the rain in shallow explosions.
19. My great-grandfathers good old days were the 1920s, a time when there were public rose gardens, with' bushes imported directly from Kew Gardens in London.
20. She stood glaring straight in front of her, the driver escalating into curses, horns blowing, other drivers shouting.
21. He sat next to Macon, his keg-shaped body alert with expectation.
22. With Esther being such an appreciative audience/ Penny found herself doing most of the talking as they ate.
