A cup of tea clutched in her hand

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Bassim

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I am wondering if my sentence is grammatically correct. "Is it correct to begin my sentence as I did, or do I need "with" at the beginning?

A cup of tea clutched in her hand, Hannah paced the room, glancing at her watch all the time, and waiting for her son's return after a night out.
 

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You don't need "With" at the start.
I'd change the end to "waiting for her son to return from a/his night out".

The pedant in me says that she can't be both "glancing" at her watch and doing it "all the time". I suggest "glancing repeatedly at her watch".
 

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Or even something like 'glancing frequently', to increase the sense of how often she's looking.
 
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