language - ablative absolute

Question 1

what does it mean?

Answer 1

grammatically separate from the rest of the sentence. Bears no relation to the res of the sentence.

Question 2

what is the job of it?

Answer 2

to give some contextual information about the main clause

Question 3

ablative absolute =

Answer 3

noun (abl.) + agreeing participle

Question 4

example:

Answer 4

when the garden had been destroyed, the queen was very sad.

Question 5

• when (or as) this happened,[ i did this , something did this etc]

Answer 5

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