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Yes, it is. This is otherwise referred to in grammar as ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTION. By definition, it is a reduced adjective or adverb clause that functions as sentence modifier indicating time and causality. This type of construction is commonly used more in writing than in speaking. I hope I've...

These cartoon characters have caught the eyes of scholars, bringing out a wave of best-selling studies by academics and scientists who say the comics are more than just escapist entertainment. bringing out a wave of best-selling studies by academics and scientists - This participial...

Hi, Please tell me how can that this partial sentence with the underlined part be correct? Why doesn't it have something like 'with' in front of it? A sickle in one hand and a saw in the other, sweat stinging the scratches on my arms , I glared at the weeds and ... And, in a post titled...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the...

An example would be, 'The regulation included monthly and hourly rates, daily rates having been omitted.' The five-word phrase at the end of this sentence comprises a participle with its own subject or nominative. I forget why it is called 'absolute'. The only book I know that mentions the...

I searched Google with " Absolute Nominative Participle Construction" and with " Absolute Nominative Participle" and got just one hit, the same, in both cases. Are you by any chance Russian? ... сложное подлежащее (complex subject), абсолютная номинативная конструкция ( absolute nominative...

Hi, Is the following sentence correct ? His fleet decimated by ZZZ, *** decided to head back to Greece . Yes, it's fine. However, it's not a very common construction, particularly in everyday speech. Best wishes, Clive

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...