Today is the fourth anniversary of this blog and it began with 4,053 posts.. As has been my custom each year, herewith a retrospective (See my post of Feb. 20, 2006: one year and 1,000 posts; Feb. 20, 2007: retrospective on second anniversary; and Feb. 25, 2008: third birthday of…
Absolutes, not the vodka of bottle-shape fame (which itself is an absolute), are phrases that look like sentences but lack the verb “be,” and let the lawyer add modifying details to a sentence. Because the absolute has its own subject, it can describe just a part of whatever it modifies.…