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." a. infinitive phraseb. prepositional phrasec. sentence fragmentd. absolute phrase (the underlined phrase is "fog flowing up the river,")

The correct answer is D. absolute phrase.

Let's use the system of elimination here:

A is incorrect because there are no infinitives in this phrase. An infinitive looks like this: to look, to sing, to dance, to sleep, etc.

B is incorrect because the prepositional phrase is only up the river - but not the entire phrase.

C is incorrect because the phrase doesn't have a finite verb - in order for it to be a sentence fragment (aka a dependent clause), it has to contain a finite verb.

Therefore, the correct answer is D. An absolute phrase is a phrase that doesn't contain a finite verb, but does contain a participle (flowing up).

you may need to add a question, yeah?