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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Question concerning absolutes
0 I hope someone can help. I am struggling with what an simple absolute and a ablative absolute is. For instance, would this sentence have a single absolute. 02 br
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00 Larry is a young executive, having accomplished a senior management title by the age of thirty one. 02 br
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00 I feel so lost. Hoping some can help. 0-
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00 Larry is a young executive, having accomplished a senior management title by the age of thirty one. 02 br
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0 As far as I can determine, 01 b 00 ablative absolute 02 b 00 applies to Latin, not English: ' 01 i 00 In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative case 02 i 00 .' I think that we would just c
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