Saturday, October 16, 2010

Writing with absolute - Why do writers use Maestro

Absolute rates make your writing Crackle.

absolute rates, add a sense of action and, simultaneously, with the basic idea in a clause or sentence. They are without doubt the most effective way to represent a writer scenes full of details that create the action and excitement. There is no tool that is most effective.

Nothing like a scene Stokes absolute rule.

By collecting data for all persons, in particular, readers of the filterScenes in order to understand, evaluate and decide on actions, places and thoughts.

That the versatility and flexibility of all is the phrase that almost anywhere in the clause or sentence (beginning, middle or end). absolute rates provide much needed information at the right time is the right place.

Note the following example, the interaction between the names and present participle:

The trees seemed to move, to close ranks, as ifTraining threaten waving branches, trunks form the cavity mouth wide open as it is called the evil more terrible and seemed to matter distorted Fill the tank with a hellish cacophony (M. Guerrero, Poison Pill chapter 35, p. 210).

waving branches, trunks forming cavity, filling the tank, the rates of all. If the names are combined with the present participle (verb ending in-ing), the results are absolutely sentences.

absolute rates are also available asNominative absolute or simple absolute.

Tu-the highlights of the immediacy of the action, so that before the eyes of readers. But how can these particular pieces of information that are so strange, the main idea behind it, one might say-so illogical with free tips?

Fortunately for the writers of the English language, this kind of non sequitur. This is a part of language as a grammarian Otto Jespersen and Henry W. Fowler, and Linguists (including Noam Chomsky), could explain convincingly enough, a mystery as a mystery why people do not grow arms and wings? "

Writers should be grateful for these aberrations of the English language, and take advantage.

In addition to the form of present participle of the verb (the tears rolling down her cheeks), we can also use the past participle of another variation of the absolute form: the cutting of teeth, clutching the boxHand>.

Since many of the grammar and syntax of the textbook discussion of absolute phrases with definitions complicated, unfortunately, many readers begin to leave the track, never to return. So let us know what you're looking to do absolutely what they achieve and then at the end of this chapter, we will try out a working definition.

Absolute forms

Although the absolute phrases can be written in many ways, the four most common uses are:

(1) the name andpresent participle: waving branches.

(2) a noun and a participle: clenched teeth.

(3) name and a prepositional phrase: a knife in his hand.

(4) noun and an adjective or adverb: on the ears.

Absolute: Group (1) - noun + present participle


Hector saw him and ran toward the front of the Honda, which had a sharp cry, screamed, and stumbled forward, sending the engine revving. (M. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 3, p. 22).

At the time Moralesopened his eyes only on the old look hard to see his spasms of the eyelid. (N. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 27, P145).

As seen in the previous example, the noun is qualified eyelid "they fell" in the sense that every adjective can precede or follow the noun, this is denied, does not mean that the sentence is a complete sentence, consists of a noun + participle present.


The ball broke to the lips of the great man are against the wall with a thud, his lips GilTurning ashen, with chattering teeth and, like a jaw implant. (M. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 33, P193).

But as he spoke, the ground sank under the basket, the smile disappears from his face. (M. Guerrero poison pill, Chapter 29, P162).

"And the Lord Julian, then?" He asked, looking at his eyes shine like sapphires in the copper-colored face. (R. Sabatini, Captain Blood, Chapter XXXI, P337).

He was wearing a black top, short half-riff tank under his blackLeather jacket, his pale face in broad daylight, making thin lips into a wicked smile. (M. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 15, p. 89).

Vaquero considered the change of frozen mud and pulled himself to his feet, chewing and crushing at the waist and chest, the large surface bubbles, gurgles and pop, his nostrils filled with the worst foul. (M. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 29, P162).

He has things to me, I had only read about in books, and at the end of their legsTrembling, palpitations, he laughed, and I hid my face in my belly and laughed too. (Sue Grafton, A for Alibi, P177).

At this point you should understand how to increase the ING-participial nouns and causing highly visible.

While Joey and Lenox approached his truck, cowboy felt her eyes fixed on him, he passed the rigid piping and a shiver down my spine. (M. Guerrero, poison pill, Chapter 18, P103).

Although the narrator claims to objective andCamera in its comments, it can inject the internal details, which could only mean one omniscient narrator. This technique allows a writer in the mind of the character to get the body and the central nervous system. "Chills ran down my spine"

We puttered past the barn, knocking diesel, the creak of the trailer, then turned south to the lower forty, an area near Siler Creek. (John Grisham, The Farm, P43).

Grisham, for his skillful use of twoAbsolute (from diesel trailers and grinding), increases the noise of the scene is happening. If he had chosen to simply say: "We puttered past the barn and the south ..." the scene would have fallen dead on arrival.

Notice how it feels to objectify Jane Austen in "Pride and Prejudice with the Absolute to an inner feeling of a different character in this way:

Elizabeth said nothing and kept walking, his heart swelling with indignation.

And I feel the coldness of the Bram Stoker takes the reader asrepresented the wrath of Dracula:

When my eyes opened involuntarily I saw his strong hand slender neck, the blonde woman with great performance to pull her blue eyes transformed with fury, white teeth biting anger, and beautiful red cheeks burning passion.

The "blue eyes transformed with fury," Absolute see below, since it belongs to the group (2), and "transformed" is a participle instead of a present participle.

To conclude thisSection to see how Tolstoy uses the absolute construction in war and peace:


"Do you or do not know where it is?" said Prince Vasili, his cheeks contractions more than ever.

Pierre obediently sat down to ask the eyes, if he did.

The site chosen for the duel about eighty steps, the street where the carriage was in a small clearing in the pine forest was covered with melting snow had left after the ice began to break in recent yearsDays.

Absolute: Group (2) - noun + past participle

Less spectacular than ever-tion is the absolute participle. While the first, the content of the action to take place under the eyes of the reader, who remembers the second is a picture of something that has already happened.


His head, his armor was Dinter chest, right sleeve a rag hanging from the shoulder of a bare arm. (R. Sabatini, Captain Blood, Chapter XXX, P331).

"I'll talk to them,Joey, then I'll tell you. Where are they planning to bury them, "he asked, frowning curiously. (M. Guerrero, Poison Pill, Chapter 29, P159).

... charged directly to shout angrily gesticulating wildly with his arms and closed eyes. (Guerrero M, poison pill, Chapter 36, P230).

In his mind he saw the photo of the child that the police photographer had taken his black meat consumed by the flames. (Elizabeth George, In search of the proper sinner, P267).

His men aresmiling, waiting for orders, linked the two prisoners to shop faster. (R. Sabatini, Captain Blood, Chapter II, p. 16).

Here's an example of a main narrator:

Her friend, Pixie Dark, was the whole thing, small white hands pressed between her breasts, her eyes wide open. (Stephen King, Cell, Chapter 2, p. 8).

Stephen King wrote in to write a bestseller, but nowhere to be found - in this famous book - a word about the "absolute". Go figure.

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