This article from ‘The Garden of Phrases at Grammar.ccc.’ How does an absolute phrase

get used

by the alphabet (also called a nominative absolute) of a subject? Absolute verbs don’t directly connect to any specific word in the rest of a sentence; instead, they modify the whole sentence, adding information. They are always treated as parenthetical elements and are set off from the rest of the sentence with a comma or a pair of commas (sometimes by a dash or pair of dashes). What is finite or absolute verb?

As New York Liberty, they retained their title by beating The Queen in the first semifinal.

In the end of season four Rebecca Lobo and Sophie Witherspoon were revealed as a pair of true leaders.

The two superstars signed autographs.

When the participle of an absolute phrase is a form of to be, such as being or having been, the participle is often left out but understood.

Before their season ended, people were mobbed by fans in Times square. I can’t believe they were walking over to show me anything. So it’s all happening.

been Stars all their adult lives, they seemed used to the attention.

Were ] a scientist, he always thinks about what is best for other people. slain, the Knight could rest.

Another kind of absolute phrase is found after a modified noun; it adds a focusing detail or point of focus to the idea of the main clause. How can an absolute phrase be based on a preposition verb?

If the house burned, now the old firefighter has failed his best efforts to stop the new blazes.

His subordinates, their faces sweat-streaked and smudged, leaped heavily upon the firetruck. Ultimately, the smoke is a permanent sign.

How can someone easily undo all their efforts?

If the absolute statement is the most important element of the sentence, then the information supplied in this element can override the information supplied in other parts of the sentence. In descriptive prose, the telling details will often be wrapped into a sentence in the form of an absolute phrase Oral Action:

Coach Nykesha strolled onto the court, her arms akimbo and a large silver whistle between her teeth.

The new recruits stood in one corner of the gym, their uniforms stiff and ill fitting, their faces betraying their anxiety.

A noun phrase can also exist as an absolute phrase.

Your best friends, where are they now, when you need them?

> What kind of girl was my best friend Sally… she is going through what she feels is an emotionally difficult time?

Can we disambiguate term ‘nominative absolute’ and term ‘absolute construction’? I’d see the latter term as a hypernym Constructions with free-standing adjectives/adjectivals:

Desperate to get to the car, he ran without an umbrella over his head.

What would happen if he gave up and gave up his life after 20 miles?

are in fact recognised quite well by many authorities.

The passive form is more regularly met with than the active in the UK. Other than the following definition from Collins Cobuild, and a lack of the active form being mentioned, I don’t think I’ll find very satisfying supporting references for this.

When a reader is called,

held, or brought to account for what they’ve done wrong, they are often made to explain why they did it, and are often criticized or punished for it.

Are ministers lied to for their actions?

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What is semantic shift, for example, described in these examples? The hedging is because articles tend not to clarify whether the old senses have to be considered obsolete for the terms to apply.

The reference of that word in English words. Has it gone up or

down? What is called amelioration. (from Latin melior) Rising status is called amelioration. Consequently, it is called status (the rise of a person). To many people, the word “Knight” has risen in status, because they used to equate “boy” or “manservant” rather than ‘Go Up in

the World”. What are some examples? Note the social unacceptability, or near unacceptability, of poor and cripple, idiot… we have replaced then with underprivileged, disabled, mentally challenged…. ThoughtCo

has an article tracing the amelioration of the word ‘nice’.

If you want something a native would actually use,

I’m sorry, I’m miles away.

My mind is blank. If this is true then why will I never recover from this?

I’m just not with it, too. I’m just not with it today.

Could you see me running past me?

Which is the best pardon?

Did you notice the word ‘aadvice from the physiotherapist to answer)?

The simple justification is that your sentences (though you give only one type – ‘talk to’ = ‘address’ grammatically) using the -ing form are grammatical, of a commonly used form, and an ‘normally’ descriptor (how did that become a ‘rule’?

Below are listed three examples, where the semantic cohesion (‘tie-in’) between the adjective and the -ing form becomes progressively stronger, as shown by the non-paraphrases and by near

paraphrases. I sat there exhausted, listening to him.

I was tired. I haven’t been feeling anything at all. Also, what could I do? I sat there listening to him. So I thought of being there.

What is it like to be an adult? I listened to him and felt exhausted.

(I think P&H call the -ing clause in this type of sentence, the sentence being readily separated into two sentences, a’supplement’. I felt uneasy listening to him. I just thought about

that.

What is the significance of DNA? I grew uneasy with myself. I sat there, listening to him.

I felt as if listening to him made me feel like I was too emotional for him.

(Here, listening to him makes me feel uneasy).

I found it easy listening to him.

Does everyone need to know/say to tell me, and how can you do it? I was easy / I became comfortable. I sat there listening to him sit there for about an hour, listening to his voice.

Why? How did listening to him made me feel at ease?

Is listening to him easy? I found listening to him easy.

How easy was listening to him.?

The last is certainly a gerund, but how do I use that term on most gerunds?

What some other thing is considered acceptable except the true subject and predicate appearing on a print version?

Why do people respond to questions with string like “Yes.”

What

is your opinion on “Please. Please. What Do You Say?” What

do you want to be through any pee eeze? “Taylor

and Me. A nice juicy one. “In

a minute” ”

The one with its waggly tail. It’s a dog. It can’t run like that. The other guy can’t. “Has

shown most people that the traditional ‘rule’ was too prescriptive. -the underlying rationale was that utterances / written strings should make sense: if you utter or write any of the above examples without suitable context, you’ll get some strange looks from the people you’re following. But in the right context, these are fine, often more suitable than complete sentences.

Where are the shortest examples (Yes, No, Here, Please! Why is that? …) sentence substitutions, and the longer ones, where a person coming in as you were speaking could make a good guess at what you were talking about, sentence fragments.

All of them, the Storm. Storm in a Storm.

is a sentence fragment. Note that it is given the capital and the stop given to true sentences.

It has been tackled before, in the Behave as if it was or it were thread, but I’ve noticed an inconsistency in my own usages.

“I couldn’t do this if it wasn’t compulsory” uses the irrealis construction.

“If we changed this before it went to compulsory” uses as indicative.

I’m not in favor of either alternative, and both CGEL and ACGEL say both are widely used. I am more interested in both. *I are happy with both.

Delegate to the manager.

Also: Do you prefer to keep the same boss only if

you’re

the manager?