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Definitions of the absolute participial clause are not want ing, but the most comprehensive one yet given is that of Callaway When to a substantive not the subject of a verb and dependent upon no other word in the sentence (noun, adjective, verb, or preposition) a participle is joined as its predicate, a clause is formed that modifies the verbal predi cate of the sentence and denotes an accompanying circum stance, as in The train having gone, I returned home.
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