Muffins eaten, it was time for Sally to serve the fruit.Muffins baked, it was time for the brunch to begin.The batter mixed, Sally was ready to bake her muffins.Past participles are different for regular and irregular verbs, but all past participle forms of regular verbs end in “ed.”Absolute phrases using a past participle follow the form Noun + past participle: But, like many other cases in grammar, there are exceptions, like other types of phrases that work like absolute phrases! We now know that Sally cares about her baking (lovingly), and that the muffins were blueberry and made fresh.Īs mentioned, most absolute phrases use a noun and either a past or present participle. Modifiers help give a clearer idea about the things in the sentence. Sally lovingly baked fresh blueberry muffins. ModifiersĪ modifier is an adjective or adverb that “modifies” or affects other words in a sentence to make it more descriptive. The objects answer the questions, giving us more details about what is happening in the sentences. Objects are usually nouns or pronouns that answer questions like “who,” “what,” “where,” and “when?” Here, the objects are purple: Here’s a chart to make this easier to understand:Īn object is the word affected by the verb or preposition in a sentence. Adding “ed” to the end of regular verbs makes the past participle adding “ing” to the end of all verbs makes the present participle. The noun in an absolute phrase is very often (but not always) accompanied by a pronoun, like this:Īn absolute phrase almost always has a past or present participle. Here are some examples, with the nouns in green: In an absolute phrase, the noun is what is doing the present or past participle (see the next section, B). A sentence’s subject is pretty much always a noun. NounsĪ noun is a person, place, thing, object or idea.
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Usually, they also have a participle, plus other modifiers and objects.
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As you can also see, they are NOT connected to the full sentence by a conjunction (like and).Ībsolute phrases always have a noun (as the subject), but don’t have a finite verb (a verb that works with the subject to make a full sentence). What’s more, absolute phrases are not full sentences on their own they only modify full sentences.