Question

Select the entire absolute phrase in the sentence.

Eyes glittering with concentration, Jacques moved his cursor toward a chess piece on the screen.

Answer 1

concentration is the object

I took the test :))

Answer 2

An absolute phrase has the form NOUN+PARTICIPLE+MODIFIERS AND/OR OBJECT and instead of modifying a specific word the absolute phrase describes the sentence as a whole. In this case the absolute phrase is “Eyes glittering with concentration”. Where Eyes is the noun, glittering is the participle, and concentration is the object.