[Grammar] absolute phrase

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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)?

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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)?

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

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

I think same grammar, so how they make difference?
 

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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.
 

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Let me try.

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

Does this make sense?
 

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