Possibly an absolute phrase or perhaps an adverbial phrase?
Before going out, he told her to put up the first and second paintings, among many other paintings, he had bought that week on the wall. When he came back, he found the paintings put up, the first hung on the left wall and the second hung on the right wall.
I don't know much about an absolute clause, but does it have to modify the independent clause as a whole? I think the part underlined in the sentence below is an absolute clause, but it doesn't seem to modify the clause. Is it an absolute phrase? Help.
Birds circling (encircling?) above, the men start to track down the dangerous escaped animal.
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Hi I'm not 100% sure, but I think your first underlined phrase is adjectival - it tells us about the paintings, as they now stand, and is therefore modifiying a noun It's tempting to think of it as adverbial. he now found how she had hung the paintings, the first on the left wall and the second on the right wall" then it could be adverbial - since it is modifying the action that the woman has performed With regard to the second sentence.. "With birds circling above them, the men moved toward the dangerous animal" is definitely adjectival "With birds circling above, the men moved toward the dangerous animal" is probably absolute - because the birds are now part of the whole scene, rather than attached to one part of the main clause...
- Hi I'm not 100% sure, but I think your first underlined phrase is adjectival - it tells us about the paintings, as they now stand, and is therefore modifiying a noun It's tempting to think of it as adverbial.
- he now found how she had hung the paintings, the first on the left wall and the second on the right wall" then it could be adverbial - since it is modifying the action that the woman has performed With regard to the second sentence..
- "With birds circling above them, the men moved toward the dangerous animal" is definitely adjectival "With birds circling above, the men moved toward the dangerous animal" is probably absolute - because the birds are now part of the whole scene, rather than attached to one part of the main clause...
- Regards, Dave
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think your first underlined phrase is adjectival - it tells us about the paintings, as they now stand, and is therefore modifiying a noun
It's tempting to think of it as adverbial. If it were "..he now found how she had hung the paintings, the first on the left wall and the second on the right wall" then it could be adverbial - since it is modifying t
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