I am sixth grade language arts teacher, and well,
would love to use this listserv as an aid to the
grammatical questions that I come across from time to
time. Actually, my question actually stems from the
current discussion on the "nominative absolute." I
hate to admit this, but I need this explained in more
elementary terms. Basically, how could I explain this
sentence to a sixth grader? If I had to analyze it on
my own, I would probably say there is a very simple
independent clause and some sort of dependent clause,
although lacking a subordinate conjunction.
You asked. Here I am.
Thanks,
Sharon
>
> --- Reinhold Schlieper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:42:48 -0500
> > Reply-to: Assembly for the Teaching of English
> > Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
> > From: Reinhold Schlieper
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > Organization: Embry-Riddle University
> > Subject: Re: My dog moaned, its tail stuck...
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Ablativus absolutus, if you're more
> Latin-oriented.
> >
> > ==Reinhold
> >
> > "Richard Veit, UNCW English Department" wrote:
> > >
> > > At 02:22 AM 12/04/2000 -0500, Ed Vavra wrote:
> > >
> > > > Question: Is the following sentence an example
> > of a comma-splice, or
> > > > an
> > > > example of a well-written sentence?
> > > >
> > > > My dog moaned, its tail stuck between its back
> > legs.
> > >
> > > That's a pretty standard example of a
> "nominative
> > absolute." That's
> > > the term I learned in grade school in the
> fifties
> > and find indexed in
> > > Roberts' 1954 Understanding Grammar. The term
> > "absolute" is used in
> > > several more recent grammar texts, but neither
> > term is indexed in
> > > Greenbaum's Oxford English Grammar. Curious
> minds
> > wanting to know, is
> > > there other terminology for such constructions?
> > >
> > > Dick Veit
> >
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