Commas: Interrupters: Absolute Phrases

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  1. All right, so last video in our little miniseries on
  2. interrupters, this one's gonna be on absolute phrases.
  3. So nationally phrases a noun, usually with a participle or
  4. participle phrase that interrupts the entire sentence, gives Mawr information
  5. about the entire sentence.
  6. I know what you astute viewers at home are thinking
  7. and just popped up right there.
  8. Frieze is They're supposed to be missing that verb and
  9. a subject, right.
  10. Why do they have both?
  11. Well, because absolute phrases are very special.
  12. They're on Lee used for a certain number of purposes,
  13. specifically adding a focusing detail to the Senate's that give
  14. you something to focus on in the sentence.
  15. That's an unnecessary detail.
  16. They use a lot more by writers and artists rather
  17. than by people who are, um right, like writing professional
  18. documents, if that makes sense.
  19. So like, you would find this lesson like a workplace
  20. and Maurin like a novel or in a paper.
  21. Because remember, we have all these tricks and tools at
  22. our aid to make our writing mawr, uh, exciting to
  23. read. And so, by mimicking some strategies that novelists used
  24. on their pros to modify our nonfiction prose, we can
  25. make our paper flow better, which is another reason we're
  26. learning. All of the's is because not only are they
  27. good to know, but they're good to use to make
  28. our writing better, too.
  29. So let's break it all down.
  30. Alison, her eyes sparkling like honey, made her way to
  31. me. Now, since this is the fourth video on this,
  32. we're probably pretty clear that Alison made her way to
  33. me. It's the independent closet stands on its own.
  34. It's a complete thought now, her eyes sparkling like honey
  35. is an absolute phrase, right?
  36. We got our noun, her eyes we have sparkling, which
  37. is a participle.
  38. Remember, a participle is a word that ends an I
  39. N g or E D s.
  40. So we don't so her eyes sparkle like honey Wouldn't
  41. be an absolute phrase.
  42. Her eyes sparkled like honey.
  43. That would be sparkling good sparkle bad on.
  44. Then we have our object.
  45. Now this gives us a detail, right, because now what
  46. are we focusing on in the sentence?
  47. Her eyes right.
  48. That's where our attention is drawn to her eyes, that
  49. air sparkling like honey.
  50. I don't think honey really sparkles that could have wrote
  51. a better sense.
  52. But regardless we her eyes are where we're drawn to
  53. in the Senate and not just us.
  54. But we can tell that the narrator, right, the person
  55. that is talking, giving the sentence there, also drawn to
  56. that that person's eyes, the eyes.
  57. Now that noun of the absolute phrase is now the
  58. focus of the Senate's now just a reminder that we
  59. have toe have if our absolute phrases it interrupter, it
  60. means tohave.
  61. I was on the before the interruption and after the
  62. interruption, so Alison, her eyes sparkling like honey, made her
  63. way to me.
  64. Now this interruption can work like adverbs do where it
  65. could go into the front, too.
  66. So it could be her eyes sparkling like honey comma
  67. Alison made her way to me, or this one is
  68. really special because absolute phrases can also go to the
  69. end So it could be her eyes sparked her.
  70. Alison made her way to me comma, her eyes sparkling
  71. like honey.
  72. That's absolute phrases.
  73. You gotta knowledge check today going to get that started
  74. and I'll see you in the next video.
  75. Until then, keep learning