KSSEEJ
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- Sep 22, 2011
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[FONT="]I have just learned the usage of absolute course in this forum, here comes two immediate questions
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[FONT="]1)"There are heartbreaking stories of residents in Tung Chung, which has no government-operated wet market, being forced to pay 6.6 per cent more for groceries compared with citywide averages prices."[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Its it better adding a subject "the residents" to the initial position of the absolute clause (in bold) , otherwise the sentence would be in bad style?[/FONT]
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[FONT="]2) "Worrying about the upcoming social instability, the administration is working on every measure to put the citizens in ease"[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Can I not use absolute clause here by replacing "Worrying" with "Worry" , to make the clause only takes "verb + adverbial" ?
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[FONT="]1)"There are heartbreaking stories of residents in Tung Chung, which has no government-operated wet market, being forced to pay 6.6 per cent more for groceries compared with citywide averages prices."[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Its it better adding a subject "the residents" to the initial position of the absolute clause (in bold) , otherwise the sentence would be in bad style?[/FONT]
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[FONT="]2) "Worrying about the upcoming social instability, the administration is working on every measure to put the citizens in ease"[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Can I not use absolute clause here by replacing "Worrying" with "Worry" , to make the clause only takes "verb + adverbial" ?
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