What is the absolute phrase in this sentence? His dreams were deferred for too long. He feared they were beginning to dry up like a raisin in the sun

The subject would be the who or what so for example in your first problem it would be mom. the predicate is what that who or what is doing. so in problem one it would be that she likes to put cherries on her cereal. ( circle mom, underline likes to put cherries on her cereal.)