fundamental ruie of grammatical construction says that a noun or pronoun not
dependent upon or related to any other word in a sentence, is correctly regarded as
The nominative absolute is as a rule, the equivalent of an adverbial clause,
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I being a coward, the thief was allowed to get away,
that is,
Inasmuch as I am
a coward, the thief was allowed to get away; Jenkins being out of the office for a
moment; the clerk telephoned his best girl.
Note that is absolute construction is frequently expressed with understood
noun or subject in general usage, as in the
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