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The detached adverbial modifier.

Any part of speech used in the function of an adverbial modifier may be detached, which accounts for the comma that separates it from the rest of the sentence.

The Corporal lit a pipe, carefully,because the enemy was close. (Heym)

In her excitement, Maria jammed the bedroom-door together. (London)

One summer, during a brief vacation at Knocke,his visit had come to the

notice of Harrington Brande... (Cronin)

An adverbial modifier expressed by the Nominative Absolute Participial Construction or any other absolute construction is generally detached.

The train coming in a minute later, the two brothers parted and entered their

respective compartments. (Galsworthy)

With his face buried in his hands,he did not see her enter. the room.

(Keating)

Of all the kinds of adverbial modifiers that of attendant circumstances is most apt to become detached.

They drove on, without speaking again,to Stanhope Gate. (Galsworthy)

He came in, with a large parcel under his arm.(Collins)

She had moved through its gaudiness and pettiness and glamour, her head

high and her lashes low, clothed in an immaculate dignity. (Sanborn)

Nicholas lay there, his brow still contracted,filled with perplexity and

confusion. (Cronin)

The kitchen became the sitting room, she and Robert eating their meals

beforethe warm stove. (Lawrence)

The detached attribute.

A detached attribute can modify not only a common noun as an ordinary attribute does but also a proper noun and a pronoun.

The crowd was now in constant uproar, yelling,gesticulating,beseeching

and reviling with Latin intensity. (Cronin)

There was a star-like quality about Judice, radiantand unreachable.

(Sanborn)

It was a wide white building, one storey high. (Sanborn)

Dumb with amazement, Mr. Gradgrind crossed to the spot where his family

was thus disgraced. (Dickens)

Stout,middle-aged,full of energy, she bustled backwards and forwards from

the kitchen to the dining-room. (Prichard)

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