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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentential construction correct?
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 "nominative absolute clause..", paco wrote on Feb. 13, 2006, wite this in an answer to sharad's post:
Because/When/As his feet had been decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens. =His feet (having been) decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens. = His feet decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens.
You can take "being", "having", or "having been" from participle clauses.
Would you say that his last sentence can be rewritten as:
You can take out "being", "having", or "having been" from participle clauses"?
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 "nominative absolute clause..", paco wrote on Feb. 13, 2006, wite this in an answer to sharad's post:
Because/When/As his feet had been decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens. =His feet (having been) decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens. = His feet decimated by the Spartans, he decided to head back to Athens.
You can take "being", "having", or "having been" from participle clauses.
Would you say that his last sentence can be rewritten as:
You can take out "being", "having", or "having been" from participle clauses"?
Top answer
A sickle in one hand and a saw in the other, sweat stinging the scratches on my arms , I glared at the weeds -- this is fine. '; 'sweat stinging. ').
- A sickle in one hand and a saw in the other, sweat stinging the scratches on my arms , I glared at the weeds -- this is fine.
- '; 'sweat stinging.
- ').
- arms ').
- from ' is possible, but really should be avoided in careful writing.
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A sickle in one hand and a saw in the other, sweat stinging the scratches on my arms, I glared at the weeds -- this is fine.
The underlined portion needn't be preceded by the preposition 'with'; we could use 'holding' instead-- this would give us two nonfinite adverbial clauses ('[holding] a sickle...'; 'sweat stinging...'). As it stands, we have a verbless clause ('
The underlined portion needn't be preceded by the preposition 'with'; we could use 'holding' instead-- this would give us two nonfinite adverbial clauses ('[holding] a sickle...'; 'sweat stinging...'). As it stands, we have a verbless clause ('
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