Question

Identify the underlined element in the following passage from the novel Bleak House by Charles wingspanens.

“Fog everywhere. Fog flowing up the river, among green banks and meadows; fog rolling down the river, where it hangs defiled among the ships and buildings of a great (and dirty) city.”

Infinitive phrase

Prepositional phrase

Sentence fragment

Absolute phrase

Answer 1

Which word(s) is/are underlined?

Answer 2

@ermehgerdnerd fog rolling down the river

Answer 3

D Absolute phrase

Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the entire sentence, adding information. They are always treated as parenthetical elements and are set off from the rest of the sentence with a comma or a pair of commas (sometimes by a dash or pair of dashes). Notice that absolute phrases contain a subject (which is often modified by a participle), but not a true finite verb. :) Hope this helps, Amanda!

Answer 4

@ermehgerdnerd yes it does, thank you very much!

Answer 5

No problem! ^_^