Answer:
1 the children have just returned....
2 I have never...
3 we already had...
4
5 I have seen the .... parade only once in my life
The answer is C.
A is not, because the cowboy's appearance is not relevant to his personality as a round character. Same general idea for B and D.
Freedom is a mental state that we can choose to have in any given situation. We always have the option of "being" free. Never once did I point the finger or feel as though I didn't have a choice in those moments of apparent hopelessness.
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.