Timeline for Are sentences still Grammatically Correct when nominative cases are omitted?
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:24 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | In the first example, eyes welling with tears is an absolute phrase; it has eyes as its own subject (not Samantha) and, without her, it could technically be anybody's eyes. Samatha stared down at the broken shards, [her mother's] eyes welling with tears. Keep her. For the second example, try: Samatha felt squashed by the glare, unable to breathe. | |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:24 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Surely her is the possessive, not the nominative? I think it could be omitted anyway. In the second example, I would omit the second felt as well as she. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:21 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | This has probably been covered before so I won't give an answer. But: 'Samatha felt squashed by the glare ... felt unable to breathe.' (not the semicolon) uses subject deletion I'm sure is quite acceptable in fiction. It sounds rarefied in conversation, but adds drama in a novel. // In your first example: equally grammatical for the genre ... but I'd query the style choice. | |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | John Lawler | In untensed clauses (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) the subject does not use the nominative form of pronouns (I). That's reserved for tensed clauses. The subjects of infinitives and past participles are objective (me) and the subjects of -ing forms (gerunds and present participles) may be either possessive (my) or objective. | |
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