An absolute phrase is defined as a modifier or a modifier with other words, that is being connected to a sentence or a noun without using any conjunction. The sentence that grammatically uses an absolute phrase is option A. The school bus drove over the hill, its lumbering yellow form full of raucous students.
Answer:
<u><em>The answer is A The fast pace moves the story forward to reveal the narrators progress</em></u>
Explanation:
<u><em>The author is trying to make a scene that gives the people that reads it a scenery of what he is trying to write. He writes it like this so we could form an image in our head about what is going on in the current situation</em></u>
An ethical appeal is a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility.
And here is your answer. :)
I have the book sitting right in front of me and I have typed the following as it appears in the book... Once upon a time- of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather; foggy withal; and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement-stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already: it had not been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down obscuring everything, one might have thought that nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
