It can affect the tone if the speaker is happy, sad or any other emotion.
C. It uses deeply religious content.
The way to write the sentence: "The store was freezin" as an absolute frase would be: The store freezing, we need to leave it quickly. Or We need to leave quickly, the store freezing.
An absolute phrase consists on a phrase that modifies a noun in a sentence, but it is not connected to the sentence by a conjunction. It is separated with a comma only, and it could be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence. An absolute phrase tends to contain a participial.
This means that the United States has always been a commonly desired place for foreigners to immigrate
