Difference between supplemental NP and absolute clause?
What is the difference between a supplemental noun phrase and a absolute clause? In these examples and in general. Is it just the non-finite nature of the second example? Are they not serving a similar purpose?
He won at his favourite sport, the long-jump, and brought another medal home for the U.S, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field.
Noun phrase functioning as a supplement/ syntactically separate element.
He just stood there, his face clearly revealing his disappointment.
Absolute clause: called absolute because it serves no grammatical function in the sentence. It just adds supplemental information.
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What is the difference between a supplemental noun phrase and a absolute clause? In these examples and in general. Is it just the non-finite nature of the second example? Are they not serving a similar purpose?
He won at his favourite sport, the long-jump, and brought another medal home for the U.S, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field.
Noun phrase functioning as a supplement/ syntactically separate element.
He just stood there, his face clearly revealing his disappointment.
Absolute clause: called absolute because it serves no grammatical function in the sentence. It just adds supplemental information.
meaning verbs american-english syntax grammatical-roles
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Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago
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What is the difference between a supplemental noun phrase and a absolute clause? In these examples and in general. Is it just the non-finite nature of the second example? Are they not serving a similar purpose?
He won at his favourite sport, the long-jump, and brought another medal home for the U.S, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field.
Noun phrase functioning as a supplement/ syntactically separate element.
He just stood there, his face clearly revealing his disappointment.
Absolute clause: called absolute because it serves no grammatical function in the sentence. It just adds supplemental information.
meaning verbs american-english syntax grammatical-roles
edited yesterday
Hannah
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asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
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What is the difference between a supplemental noun phrase and a absolute clause? In these examples and in general. Is it just the non-finite nature of the second example? Are they not serving a similar purpose?
He won at his favourite sport, the long-jump, and brought another medal home for the U.S, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field.
Noun phrase functioning as a supplement/ syntactically separate element.
He just stood there, his face clearly revealing his disappointment.
Absolute clause: called absolute because it serves no grammatical function in the sentence. It just adds supplemental information.
meaning verbs american-english syntax grammatical-roles
meaning verbs american-english syntax grammatical-roles
edited yesterday
Hannah
13110
asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
686
edited yesterday
Hannah
13110
asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
686
edited yesterday
Hannah
13110
edited yesterday
Hannah
13110
edited yesterday
Hannah
13110
13110
asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
686
asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
686
asked Dec 21 '18 at 17:32
bluebell1bluebell1
686
686
Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago
add a comment |
Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago
Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago
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Isn’t one important difference that one is an NP—a phrase headed by a noun, that acts like a noun—and the other is a clause?
– sumelic
yesterday
@sumelic That's obviously an important formal difference, but I suspect what the OP is after is a functional difference?
– Hannah
yesterday
Bluebell, in answer to your question "Are they not serving a similar purpose?", I think the answer is "yes". As far as I have understood, they are both considered to be supplements from a functional point of view. The only difference between them, then, would be strictly formal – just as Sumelic points out in the comment above.
– Hannah
15 hours ago