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16 October, 02:51

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

"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."

A. Infinitive Phrase

B. Prepositional Phrase

C. Sentence Fragment

D. Absolute Phrase

(The underlined phrase is "Fog Flowing up the river,")

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  1. 16 October, 04:13
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    D. absolute phrase because a absolute phrase does not directly connect or modify any specific word.
  2. 16 October, 04:46
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    The correct answer is D. absolute phrase.

    Let's use the system of elimination here:

    A is incorrect because there are no infinitives in this phrase. An infinitive looks like this: to look, to sing, to dance, to sleep, etc.

    B is incorrect because the prepositional phrase is only up the river - but not the entire phrase.

    C is incorrect because the phrase doesn't have a finite verb - in order for it to be a sentence fragment (aka a dependent clause), it has to contain a finite verb.

    Therefore, the correct answer is D. An absolute phrase is a phrase that doesn't contain a finite verb, but does contain a participle (flowing up).
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