nominative absolute
noun
A construction in which a nominative noun or pronoun followed by an (adjectival or non-finite verbal) adjunct forms an adverb phrase.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Philological Society.
- plain-paper
- Plain People
- plain sail
- plain sailing
- plain-saw
- plain sawing
- plains bison
- plains buffalo
- plain scale
- Plains Cree
- Plains culture
- plain service
- plain sewing
- Plains hunter
- plain sight
- Plains Indian
- plainsman
- Plains of Abraham
- plainsong
- plain-speaking
- plain-spoke
- plain-spoken
- Plains States
- plainstones
- Plains tribe