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AppleFanboy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

No and?

Theater is immediate, its actions present to participants and audience.

Was there 'and' between 'immediate' and 'its' somwhow omitted?

I don't know why they didn't put 'and'.

Is there a rule on when to omit 'and'?
  

Top answer

When two sentences are very short, as they are here, and very closely related, the "and" between them can be omitted.

— Anonymous

  • When two sentences are very short, as they are here, and very closely related, the "and" between them can be omitted.
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When two sentences are very short, as they are here, and very closely related, the "and" between them can be omitted.
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AppleFanboyTheater is immediate, its actions present to participants and audience.
I don't understand this. I don't know whether "present" is supposed to be a verb or an adjective, but neither interpretation creates a sentence that I recognise as correct.
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AppleFanboyWas there 'and' between 'immediate' and 'its' somehow omitted?
No. You have a three-word main clause and a short clause after the comma (a noun phrase and another kind of phrase — adjective phrase in this case). The implicit connection is "in that" or "because".

Theater is immediate (in that) its act
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CalifJimTheater is immediate (in that) its actions (are) present to (both the) participants (to the) audience.
So what does it mean for actions to be "present to" the participants and the audience? That makes sense to you, does it?
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GPYSo what does it mean for actions to be "present to" the participants and the audience?
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CalifJim GPYSo what does it mean for actions to be "present to" the participants and the audience?Physically there. Really there. In their faces. (Compare with film, where the actors themselves and their actions are "absent" from the venue, "not present".)CJ
OK, I don't think I know that expression.
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OK. Fair enough.

Found online:

What is Present to the Mind? (book title)
As Tallis points out, the brain activity we can measure is present to our consciousness.
*** is present to us through Scripture, community worship, and the life of discipleship.
it would not be appropriate to say that the computer is present to the room or that the room is present to the compu
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Thank you for your answers. I first though that 'present to' was a verb. Knowing it was an adjective clause, I can now understand the sentence.
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AppleFanboyThank you for your answers. I first though that 'present to' was a verb
Re your now hypothetical question ... While it is normally a comma splice to join independent clauses with no conjunction, it is still permissible in certain strictly limited cases (e.g. "I didn't walk, I ran"), at least in my opinion. I think it is dubious though whether the or
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