  at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot.  Posted by P.
Bingham on March 22, 1998 at 03:05:39:  In response to By
revealing the Absolute, clarification was obtained., written by
Caroline on March 21, 1998 at 20:18:17  To L and T indexWhat is
Ablative Absolute? My father tried to make me take Latin but I
managed to get out of it and take French and Spanish instead.
There is a book though (at the risk of sounding like I have my
nose in a book 24 hours a day) that was originally published in
the seventeenth century (I think) that was about language and
sentence structure and the various ways that writers can
influence the reader through writing techniques. For the life of
me I can't recall the title but each structure (such as an
idiom) was named after an animal. The book was filled with these
beasts of the English language and very very fascinating. I find
myself using these techniques all the time simply because I read
this book.    - Republic of Pemberley - Home | Q | Jane Info