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Awaiting gives the ongoing circumstance; awaits is finite, and awaited cannot express the delegates actively awaiting instructions here. Example: With customers queuing outside, we opened early.","With several delegates awaiting instructions, the chair suspended proceedings.",[],{"words":21,"correct":31,"wrongIndex":32,"corrections":33},[22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30],"With","several","delegates","await","instructions,","the","chair","suspended","proceedings.","awaiting",3,[34,31,35],"awaits","awaited",{"id":37,"sentenceTemplate":38,"displayOrder":10,"explanation":39,"exampleSentence":40,"blanks":41,"payload":42},"01a0e1ab-d669-7b93-97b8-8948e1ca119d","Her fingers trembled, the violinist approached the stage.","Her fingers is the absolute clause’s own subject. Trembling supplies a non-finite predicate describing an accompanying circumstance. Trembled, tremble and trembles instead produce a finite clause joined to another finite clause by only a comma. Example: The audience watching in silence, the magician opened the box.","Her fingers trembling, the violinist approached the stage.",[],{"words":43,"correct":50,"wrongIndex":51,"corrections":52},[44,45,46,27,47,48,27,49],"Her","fingers","trembled,","violinist","approached","stage.","trembling,",2,[53,54,50],"tremble,","trembles,",{"id":56,"sentenceTemplate":57,"displayOrder":51,"explanation":58,"exampleSentence":59,"blanks":60,"payload":61},"01a0e1ab-d669-7bef-97b8-8948e293f483","The final objections having being withdrawn, negotiations resumed.","The perfect passive absolute requires having been withdrawn. Been follows perfect having; neither be nor are can do so. The perfect marks withdrawal as earlier than the resumption, without itself making the relationship explicitly causal. Example: The appeal having been rejected, the original ruling remained in force.","The final objections having been withdrawn, negotiations resumed.",[],{"words":62,"correct":71,"wrongIndex":72,"corrections":73},[63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70],"The","final","objections","having","being","withdrawn,","negotiations","resumed.","been",4,[74,71,75],"be","are",{"id":77,"sentenceTemplate":78,"displayOrder":32,"explanation":79,"exampleSentence":80,"blanks":81,"payload":82},"01a0e1ab-d669-7c47-97b8-8948e29e64bd","We kept working, with the door hold open by a wedge.","The door receives the action, as by a wedge confirms, so the with-supplement needs the passive participle held. Holding would make the door the agent, while holds is finite. Example: She slept with the shutters secured by a metal bar.","We kept working, with the door held open by a wedge.",[],{"words":83,"correct":94,"wrongIndex":95,"corrections":96},[84,85,86,87,27,88,89,90,91,92,93],"We","kept","working,","with","door","hold","open","by","a","wedge.","held",6,[97,98,94],"holding","holds",{"id":100,"sentenceTemplate":101,"displayOrder":72,"explanation":102,"exampleSentence":103,"blanks":104,"payload":105},"01a0e1ab-d669-7c9b-97b8-8948e2ee2c10","With the engine not runs properly, we abandoned the journey.","The with-supplement requires the non-finite active predicate running, with not placed before it. Runs and ran are finite; run cannot describe the engine operating in this structure. Example: With the heating not working, the gallery closed for the afternoon.","With the engine not running properly, we abandoned the journey.",[],{"words":106,"correct":114,"wrongIndex":72,"corrections":115},[22,27,107,108,109,110,111,112,27,113],"engine","not","runs","properly,","we","abandoned","journey.","running",[114,116,117],"ran","run",{"id":119,"sentenceTemplate":120,"displayOrder":121,"explanation":122,"exampleSentence":123,"blanks":124,"payload":125},"01a0e1ab-d669-7d0b-97b8-8948e361ba09","All things considering, the smaller venue seems preferable.",5,"The conventional absolute expression is all things considered: things are considered, rather than doing the considering. Consider and considers cannot supply its passive predicate. Example: The proposal is affordable, all things considered.","All things considered, the smaller venue seems preferable.",[],{"words":126,"correct":134,"wrongIndex":51,"corrections":135},[127,128,129,27,130,131,132,133],"All","things","considering,","smaller","venue","seems","preferable.","considered,",[136,134,137],"consider","considers,",{"id":139,"sentenceTemplate":140,"displayOrder":95,"explanation":141,"exampleSentence":142,"blanks":143,"payload":144},"01a0e1ab-d669-7d5f-97b8-8948e43c4db8","The storm having subsides, residents emerged from their homes.","Having requires the past participle subsided to form a perfect absolute. Subsiding and subside cannot follow perfect having. The storm’s subsiding precedes the residents’ emergence; this form does not independently assert causation. Example: The applause having faded, the speaker continued.","The storm having subsided, residents emerged from their homes.",[],{"words":145,"correct":153,"wrongIndex":32,"corrections":154},[63,146,66,147,148,149,150,151,152],"storm","subsides,","residents","emerged","from","their","homes.","subsided,",[155,153,156],"subsiding,","subside,",{"id":158,"sentenceTemplate":159,"displayOrder":160,"explanation":161,"exampleSentence":162,"blanks":163,"payload":164},"01a0e1ab-d669-7db3-97b8-8948e4fd239e","The technician left without anyone noticed the missing cover.",7,"Without anyone noticing expresses a circumstance that did not occur. After without and the expressed subject anyone, this construction requires noticing, not a finite or bare verb. It is related to, but not interchangeable with, a with-absolute. Example: The alarm stopped without anybody touching the controls.","The technician left without anyone noticing the missing cover.",[],{"words":165,"correct":173,"wrongIndex":121,"corrections":174},[63,166,167,168,169,170,27,171,172],"technician","left","without","anyone","noticed","missing","cover.","noticing",[175,176,173],"notices","notice","\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_ebacce4d-7c9c-4525-827a-061e7d7bd411_hero.webp?v=1790492530",{"title":179,"slug":180,"language":181,"level":182},"Absolute and Verbless Supplementary Clauses","absolute-and-verbless-supplementary-clauses","en","C2"]