Question

Identify the underlined element in the following passage from the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

"Fog everywhere. Fog flowing up the river, among green banks and meadows; fog rolling down the river, where it hangs defiled among the ships and buildings of a great (and dirty) city." (5 points)


Infinitive phrase
Prepositional phrase
Sentence fragment
Absolute phrase

Answer 1

Absolute phrase

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

If the underlined phrase is Fog rolling down the river. Then it is an Absolute phrase.

An absolute phrase is a combination of a noun and a participle accompanied by modifiers or objects.

Fog rolling down the river

Noun - Fog
Participle - rolling
modifiers - down the river.