[Ads-l] A narrator speaks:

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 20 19:58:10 UTC 2016


On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:01 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any first-year Latin student could spot an ablative absolute.


That's so. But English has nominative absolutes.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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