What is the absolute phrase in this sentence?
their backpacks fully loaded, the mountain climbers listened to the guide's directions before beginning the trek.
a. to the guide's directions
b. their backpacks fully loaded
c. before beginning the trek
d. the mountain climbers listened

The correct answer is B. Their backpacks fully loaded

Explanation:

In language, an absolute phrase is one that contains a noun, a participle (word ended in -ing or -ed) and acts as an independent entity in a sentence usually modifying other words in it. Because of this, absolute phrase are usually placed at the beginning of sentences and are set apart by commas. This means, in the case of the sentence presented the one that is an absolute phrase is "Their backpacks fully loaded" because this is the section of the sentence with a noun "their backpacks" a participle "loaded" and that modifies the rest of the words which occurs in absolute phrases.

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the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.