Last week's column described the nominative absolute or absolute clause—to avoid confusion we will call it the absolute phrase—asa major departure from the usual modifying phrases in that it doesn't directly modify a specific word in the main clause. Instead, it modifies the entire main clause, adding information or providing context to it.

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