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Is the noun modifier "among them a portable anti-tank rocket and a wheel-mounted recoilless rifle" an appositive or absolute phrase?
Here you do indeed have an absolute phrase:
Higgins was looking at videos coming out of the Daraya region when he noticed several weapons that he had not yet documented in Syria,
among them a ...
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Is the noun modifier "among them a portable anti-tank rocket and a wheel-mounted recoilless rifle" an appositive or absolute phrase?
According to Huddleston & Pullum (2002), it is a verbless clause acting as a supplement (pp. 1265-1268, 1359-1360); essentially it's similar to that in your previous question, but we don't have a ...
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
No, there is no fixed order for prepositional phrases. The arrangement often depends on the specific context and the writer's choice.
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
If it’s not a changelog about previous commits, then your second example is clearer. Perhaps you can see that better comparing these simpler examples:
The edit adds more info to the article about the ...
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Feel confused about the use of "seem" or "seems" in these two sentences
TL;DR: In cases like yours, either version is correct; the plural form seem is what we would expect, but the singular seems is a common alternative. (My source for the following analysis is The ...
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
First: some commenters got confused by the technical language in this sentence. Commit here is a noun, referring to a record of a batch of changes to a codebase; the sentence is talking about the ...
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Is there an order to prepositional phrases?
Both are grammatically correct. Your second is the clearer. And clearer still would be
The change adds to the change log more info about the previous commits on May xx, xxxx.
This version has the ...
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What is the technical grammatical difference between these two sentences?
The difference between these two sentences is the same as the difference between:
I sent her a message.
I sent a message to her.
In (1), send is used as a ditransitive verb, with an indirect object (...
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Prepositional phrases next to adjectives
Yes, those adjectives and their preposition phrase complements (they are allowed by a certain subset of adjectives) do form adjective phrases. These adjective phrases are modifiers in noun phrases in ...
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