Question

What does the following sentence start with? Weather permitting, the picnic will be held at the community park. A. A past participle B. An adjective C. An absolute construction D. A prepositional phrase

Answer 1

Answer:C ;an absolute construction

Explanation:

Words that usually do not connect grammatically with the rest of the sentence,usual these are group of words at the beginning of the sentence.

It expresses a cause or time or circumstances that resulted to something happening or not happening.

In this case the phrase weather permitting helped them to have the picnic is the absolute construction.