Absolute construction<span> is a </span>grammatical construction<span> standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements.</span>
I believe your answer would be <span>Transcendentalism.</span>
I believe it is a claim because it does focus on the main idea and what the text/passage should be about. If not I deeply apologize.
Think about it...what is the plural of foot ? Is is not foots...it is feet...irregular plural noun