| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| ABLATIVE 2 (adj., n.), ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE, ABLATIVE CASE |
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| Latin has an ablative case. Latin’s ablative absolute is a syntactically separate phrase, usually made up of a noun and a modifier, both in the ablative case; it works like a sentence modifier. English has no ablative case, but it has structures that grammarians have compared to ablative absolutes: The homework completed, we hurried to the stadium. The grammatical term ablative is stressed on the first syllable, AB-luh-tiv, as noun or adjective. See also ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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