[Grammar] absolute phrase

[vaibhavmaskar]

The season nearly finished,Rebecca Lobo and Sophie Witherspoon emerged as true leaders

" The season nearly finished" is an absolute phrase but It look like simple past tense.

How absolute phrase different from simpale past(grammar and meaning)?

Thanks

 

[MikeNewYork]

The season nearly finished,Rebecca Lobo and Sophie Witherspoon emerged as true leaders

" The season nearly finished" is an absolute phrase but It look like simple past tense.

How absolute phrase different from simpale past(grammar and meaning)?

Thanks

That is not the simple past tense. The word "finished" is a past participle there that acts as a modifier of the noun "season".

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

1.The season nearly finished- absolute phras.

2.The class (nearly) finished- simple past.

I think same grammar, so how they make difference?

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

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[MikeNewYork]

1.The season nearly finished- absolute phras.

2.The class (nearly) finished- simple past.

I think same grammar, so how they make difference?

The complete sentence makes the difference. You cannot analyze words in a vacuum.

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

Could you explain in details?

 

[White Hat]

Let me try.

The season BEING nearly finished, Rebecca Lobo and Sophie Witherspoon emerged as true leaders.

Does this make sense?

 

[emsr2d2]

Well, yes, that's what it means but the original is fine.

 

[charliedeut]

Could you explain in details?

I believe the construction you used is called (by some at least) a gerundive (Gerundive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

[MikeNewYork]

I believe the construction you used is called (by some at least) a gerundive (Gerundive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Yes, that is true. But learners already have trouble differentiating gerunds from (present) participles. The term "gerundive" makes that worse, IMO.