With free entry to over 30 of the city’s top attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free guidebook and lots of exclusive offers the Edinburgh Pass is the best way to explore the Scottish capital.
As Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 490) point out:
There is one type of non-finite dependent clause which is often not recognised because it has no verb in it; for example, with no-one in charge, with everyone so short of money. These are in fact ‘attributive relational’ clauses, with zero alternation of the non-finite verb being (less commonly they may be identifying, eg with that the only solution). The verb be will always be present in the agnate finite clause (eg since no-one is in charge); and in the non-finite it is always possible to insert being, with very little difference in meaning.
So, on this basis, the analysis would be
With
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free entry to over 30 of the city’s top
attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free
guidebook and lots of exclusive offers
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the Edinburgh Pass
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is
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the best way to explore the Scottish
capital
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Cf the agnate enhancing (causal: reason) non-finite clause:
Providing
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free entry to over 30 of the city’s top
attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free
guidebook and lots of exclusive offers
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Cf the agnate enhancing (causal: reason) finite clause:
Because
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it
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provides
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free entry to over 30 of the city’s top
attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free
guidebook and lots of exclusive offers
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Process
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