Usage with absolute phrase.
As the boy tames the wild bird, it evokes pleasure in him away from his hardship in society, the bird is bettering us here.
This is wrong separated with a comma as it's a complete sentence. Does it need a colon instead? It means a substitution of needs.
How could you rephrase it so it works like this example. Perhaps: the bird bettering us here.
Steven played the difficult concerto, his fingers flying over the piano keys.
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Preliminary point: Absolutes are non-finite clauses, as in your second example, but The bird is bettering us here is a finite clause, so it can't be an absolute. It appears that some heavy punctuation is required: a full stop or a semicolon perhaps. Where did you find the sentence, or did you invent it?
- Preliminary point: Absolutes are non-finite clauses, as in your second example, but The bird is bettering us here is a finite clause, so it can't be an absolute.
- It appears that some heavy punctuation is required: a full stop or a semicolon perhaps.
- Where did you find the sentence, or did you invent it?
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Preliminary point: Absolutes are non-finite clauses, as in your second example, but The bird is bettering us here is a finite clause, so it can't be an absolute.
It appears that some heavy punctuation is required: a full stop or a semicolon perhaps.
Where did you find the sentence, or did you invent it?
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