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C2 Grammar
Supplementive and absolute clauses
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Choose the most accurate grammatical principle.
Which principle best distinguishes supplementive clauses from absolute clauses?
Supplementive clauses must begin with although; absolute clauses must begin with with.
A supplementive clause often shares its understood subject with the main clause; an absolute clause has its own subject.
There is no structural difference between them.
Absolute clauses always contain a finite verb; supplementive clauses never do.
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