Timeline for What is 'him' in this sentence: "She stands there, him looking into her eyes."? [duplicate]
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| May 3, 2017 at 3:16 | history | edited | user50720 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:48 | comment | added | BillJ | Yeah, gud innit! | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:46 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @BillJ CGEL has its moments. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:45 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @tchrist You didn't get a Christmas card from my uncle too, did you? | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:11 | comment | added | BillJ | Yes, "him" is the subject of the non-finite clause him looking into her eyes, a supplementary adjunct. It would also be possible to have the nominative "he" as subject. Such clauses belong to the absolute construction, one which is subordinate in form but with no syntactic link to the main clause. Supplements are not modifiers; they are optional loosely attached elements outside clause structure, set apart from the main clause by punctuation and a slight pause in speech. Like non-defining relative clauses, they are presented as separate units of information, parenthetical or additional. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @EdwinAshworth There’s a comment to you on my answer. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:53 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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Duplicate of What’s the ‘accusative absolute’? | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @tchrist You're free to edit the title. I'd consider it beneficial in this case. I've just pointed out the duplicate thread. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @EdwinAshworth If this were Latin or Greek or even German, it might be an accusative absolute. But that’s a mighty peculiar label to apply to a language like English without an accusative case, eh? :) | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:23 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:20 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:10 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Answered at What's this construction called? “Him being the nice person he is, helped her out”. | |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 15:03 | history | asked | Katja | CC BY-SA 3.0 |