As a young man, foster was a bookkeeper at his brother’s steamship company
The fragment <em>near the computer </em>is a prepositional phrase. Since it begins with a preposition <em>near </em>and it doesn't have a verb, it must be a prepositional phrase.
The theme of a story is the lesson behind the story while a summary is just a shortened verion of the stoey
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