- Source: Nominative absolute
In English grammar, a nominative absolute is an absolute, the term coming from Latin absolūtum for "loosened from" or "separated", part of a sentence, functioning as a sentence modifier (usually at the beginning or end of the sentence). It provides an additional information about the main subject and verb. Its analogues are the ablative absolute in Latin, the genitive absolute in Greek, or the locative absolute in Sanskrit.
A noun in the common case or a pronoun in the nominative case is joined with a predicate that does not include a finite verb.
One way to identify a nominative absolute is to add a conjunction and a verb: one can often (though not always) create a subordinate clause out of a nominative absolute by adding a subordinating conjunction (such as because or when) and a form of the verb to be.
Examples:
References
Absolute Constructions from the American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996).
Nominative Absolute Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Nominative Absolute Collins Dictionary.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Nominative absolute
- Nominative–absolutive alignment
- Nominative–accusative alignment
- Ergative–absolutive alignment
- Marked nominative alignment
- Split ergativity
- Absolute construction
- Absolutive case
- Mutatis mutandis
- Morphosyntactic alignment
