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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
passive participial phrase?
1. Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration (being) broken, the point she was about to make (being) lost.
Q) The sentence structure above is very unfamiliar to me.
Is it the same as this?
2. Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration was broken, and the point she was about to make was lost.
Is the difference between two sentences are the be verbs "was"?
Q) The sentence structure above is very unfamiliar to me.
Is it the same as this?
2. Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration was broken, and the point she was about to make was lost.
Is the difference between two sentences are the be verbs "was"?
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moon7296 Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration broken , the point she was about to make lost . Those are verbless (or reduced) clauses. That they are structurally incomplete allows them to be attached to the main clause instead of being written as a new sentence.
- moon7296 Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration broken , the point she was about to make lost .
- Those are verbless (or reduced) clauses.
- That they are structurally incomplete allows them to be attached to the main clause instead of being written as a new sentence.
- moon7296 Is it the same as this?
- 2.
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moon7296Olivia's mind wandered, her concentration broken, the point she was about to make lost.Those are verbless (or reduced) clauses. That they are structurally incomplete allows them to be attached to the main clause instead of being written as a new sentence.
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