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1. Prepositional absolute construction with Participle I:
With his head aching from the slap of the bullet and the blood dripping over the ear, he went over to the Frenchman.
2. Prepositional absolute construction with Participle II:
A Negro boy lay on the pavement, with his throat cut.
3. Prepositional absolute construction with the Infinitive:
You’ll lose the last minutes, without someone to take care of you.
4. Prepositional absolute construction with the adjective:
She hurriedly left the room with her eyes red.
5. Prepositional absolute construction with the stative:
He stood there trembling, with his face ablaze.
6. Prepositional absolute construction with the adverb:
He turned away, with his hand still up.
7. Prepositional absolute construction with a noun:
They marched towards the square, with little flags in their hands.
THE COMPOSITE SENTENCE
The composite sentence is a sentence consisting of two or more clauses, and therefore containing two or more subject-predicate groups. In its structure a clause is similar to a simple sentence, but unlike a simple sentence it forms part of a bigger syntactical unit.
Within a composite sentence clauses may be joined by means of coordination or subordination, thus forming a compound or a complex sentence respectively.
Coordination is a way of linking grammatical elements to make them equal in rank.
