Nominative Case for Pronouns of Nominative Absolutes
Curious to see what everyone thinks about this.... Is there a reasoning behind using the nominative case for pronouns that are a part of nominative absolutes?
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When you present a complex grammar structure discussion without an example, it can be opened to all kinds of interpretations?
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When you present a complex grammar structure discussion without an example, it can be opened to all kinds of interpretations?
0I don't know whether you will be able to access this content, but there is a discussion about this at:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EXndBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21
They give counterexamples from literature such as "She was surprised he lived so poorly, him being a successful man", whi
0allexkramer432Is there a reasoning
I dispute that there is any reasoning behind any phenomena regarding the generation of language.
If there is, it's a sort of covert intuition more than reasoning.
It's not like an abbey full of monks worked out The Rules of English during the Middle Ages, and we simply continue to be guided by their work
0allexkramer432Curious to see what everyone thinks about this.... Is there a reasoning behind using the nominative case for pronouns that are a part of nominative absolutes?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'nominative absolute', but I'll assume you're referring to absolute clauses.
Absolutes are adjuncts; they follow the normal rules for pronoun c
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