Monday, March 11, 2019

grammar - Clause Question

I was going through a reading and this construction confused the student:





“Will we be able to talk?” I asked, my eyes red and swollen from
crying, a balled up tissue squeezed tightly between my sweaty palms.




She understood the words; it was the construction that confused her. I could explain what it meant in that context, but I didn't have a good explanation for that construction, generally. So in the above example, how would you classify "my eyes red and swollen from crying, a balled up tissue squeezed tightly between my sweaty palms"? Is it an appositive? Some kind of relative clause? Something else? A noun phrase?

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