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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
He hung up the phone a frightened man
Is the sentence grammatically correct? A frightened man seems dangling without a connective.
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Hi, Is the sentence grammatically correct? He hung up the phone a frightened man. It's OK, but put a comma after 'phone'.
- Hi, Is the sentence grammatically correct?
- He hung up the phone a frightened man.
- It's OK, but put a comma after 'phone'.
- A more common word order would be A frightened man, he hung up the phone.
- Both sentences are a bit literary in style.
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Hi,
Is the sentence grammatically correct?
He hung up the phone a frightened man.
It's OK, but put a comma after 'phone'.
A more common word order would be
A frightened man, he hung up the phone.
Is the sentence grammatically correct?
He hung up the phone a frightened man.
It's OK, but put a comma after 'phone'.
A more common word order would be
A frightened man, he hung up the phone.
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AnonymousA frightened man seems dangling without a connective.It doesn't need to be connected. This is a subject-oriented depictive secondary predication.
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