nominative absolute

nominative absolute

noun Grammar.
a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as the play done in The play done, the audience left the theater.

Origin:
1835–45; by analogy with ablative absolute
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Nominative absolute is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations.
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