Comma or semicolon?

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I'm trying to figure out if a sentence like the following one would need a comma or a semicolon... the phrases seem connected, and yet also independent at the same time: "I could picture her now, her green dress matching her eyes." Thank you!

12/15/203:02 PM

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Gustavo, Co-ModeratorProfessor of Legal and Financial Translation

Hello, Ana4316,

@Ana4316 posted:
"I could picture her now, her green dress matching her eyes."

"her green dress matching her eyes" is an absolute construction (notice the verb is a non-finite, that is, not tensed) and, as is always the case with absolute constructions, it needs to be set off by a comma.

12/15/205:30 PM

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