Is that a verbose way of labeling what traditional scholarly grammar
referred to as the "vocative"?

==Reinhold

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> ** Reply to note from Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar              <[log in to unmask]>         Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:54:27 -0700
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> When I was reading Bruce Despain's post, the phrase "nominative of direct address"
> popped into my head. So I did a quick Google search and found "Ladies and genlemen,
> start your engines"  as a familiar example of such a constuction. Additionally, it
> still works in the following: "Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen." I guess I'll
> concur with TSE.
>
> I suspect the funny feeling Eliot's usage might cause comes from the logically odd
> notion of needing to directly address yourself.
>
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