How sometimes can I

• fall asleep completely, my belly full and my bed warm?

• When the newlyweds arrived at the motel, they checked in, unaware of their problems.

• Jack and John strip off their shirts and swim towards the lake, the happiest they’ve ever been.

• Aware of time was about up, I made a wild guess and hoped I was right.

• Dressed to the nines, she walked gracefully into the room.

• On her feet she humped his hat in hand and crossed the room.

• She stepped gracefully into the room, neck-deep in grief but head held high. Then she was hers.

You made an example that doesn’t have an absolute ” phrase. What did you do? Second is that for a phrase, by definition, there are more than one word. If it is true there will be more word in it. We speak with one word. “Gracefully”. When an absolute phrase changes the entire sentence (i.e. the whole sentence) – it will make sense. Since you say that she “gracefully walked into the room” is the sentence and don’t mention that you’re changing the meaning of the sentence but are merely moving “gracefully” to the end, it’s clear that “gracefully” is only modifying “walked” because that’s all it modifies in “She gracefully walked into the room” ” It is not modifying the entire sentence but still just the verb. The only difference is there when it appears after the indirect object rather than before the verb.

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of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole. ” http://www.thoughtco.de. ( https://www.thoughtco.de/) ( ( https://www.thoughtco.de/html/html) An absolute

phrase is a grammatically independent group of words that serves to modify or add information to an entire sentence. ” ( https://www.Thefreedictionary.com/Absolute-Phrases.html) Absolute Phrases.

Definition: a group of words consisting of a noun and a participle, that is attached to a sentence without a conjunction in order to modify it ( https://prezi.org/. htm ). com/fd85xqfskwaw/absolute-phrase/ )

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An adverb or adverb phrase, though it may modify an entire clause just as an absolute phrase does, fails to fulfill a basic criterion for that construction: ungrammatically all adverb is a subject.

The analogous construction, however, is the sentence adverb, a disjunct which takes the reader outside the argument of the sentence and expresses a resultant attitude or opinion. As the name implies, a sentence adverb does not attach grammatically to a verb but, as an absolute phrase, to an entire clause.

Also, adverbs also need not be phrase, but for the sake of illustration, here are a few examples. Unfortunately

for researchers, people under the age of 65 have no identifiers other than their Social Security numbers and have no population-wide insurance system that could (like Medicare) be used to track medical events over time. — Tools For Evaluating Health Technologies, 2004.

What are some examples of sentences in which adverb modifiers a sentence or clause into a sentence or

clause? — Robert W. Coakley, Stetson Conn, The War of the American Revolution, 2002, 18.

What is a society? It is not easy to find social scientists who seem to know – and are ready to explain – what a “society” is really about. Is there really a European Society? In: Ines Katenhusen, Wolfram Lamping, eds. Demokratien in Europa, 2013.

The kitchen, too, was very small. In fact the largest room in the house was the bathroom, surprisingly enough. — Meagan M. Donohue, Sincarian, 2009, 139.

Since gracefully describes the manner in which an action is performed rather than express an authorial comment, it is difficult to imagine its use as a sentence adverb even in the same construction:

Nandini had made up her mind to go with them, had even changed into outdoor clothes, but she had backed out, gracefully enough, without rancour. Ambika Sirkar, No Crystal Stair, 2011, 56. (Rp. Opinion)

Despite the parentheses and the adverb + enough phrase, gracefully enough still expresses the manner in which Nandini backed out, i.e. when he realized that the problem was more complex. , it still modifies the verb, not the clause, as, say, surprisingly enough, which would be a comment on her behavior and personality, not how she backed out of a planned engagement.