What's the name for the writing artifact where you put the "thing" before the other thing?
Let me give you ana example.
Hearing the horde approaching, Bob unsheathed his sword. (Instead of "Bob unsheathed his sword as he heard the horde approaching")
or
Not knowing what would happen next, I deided to make the call.
You feel me? You put the thing before the action, so to speak. This HAS to have a name in literature. Thanks.
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I wanna say passive vs active voice but I'm probably wrong
Active voice and passive voice
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A participle phrase
Simple sentence: One independent clause
Compound sentence: 2 or more independent clauses
Complex Sentence: One independent clause and one or more dependant clauses
Compound complex: 2 independent clauses and 1 or more dependant clauses
These are complex sentences, so it just depends on the order of the clauses. (independent, dependent, or dependent, independent.)
this
it's called a periodic sentence. The opposite, your second example, is called a loose sentence. be sure to alternate sentence types as well as lengths while writing in order to create a good flow.
Wrong. Those are not clauses because they do not have a subject
Isn't Bob the subject?
Apologies if wrong, I studied this years ago.
But Bob isn't in the phrase "hearing the horde approaching"
It's just a participial phrase (a phrase structured around a participle).
A participle looks like a verb but is instead used as an adjective or adverb. In "a man dances", "dance" is the verb, but in "a dancing man", there is no verb; "dancing" is a participle (adjective).
A participle can come at the beginning of a sentence, but that's no different from an adjective.
"Hungry, I devoured a bag of chips."—normal adjective
"Starving, I devoured a bag of chips."—participle adjective
The cool thing about participles that separate them from normal adjectives (or adverbs) is since they have the form of verbs, you can structure entire clauses around them. These are dependent clauses such that the entire clauses act as adjectives (or adverbs).
"Tripping over my shoelaces, I fell down."
"Receiving my badge and gun, I became a despicable class traitor."
"Hearing the horde approaching, Bob unsheathed his sword."
The first half of all of these sentences are participial phrases.
Note that such phrases can happily fit anywhere in the sentences; they don't need to come at the beginning.
"She pet the cat purring on her lap."—The "purring" phrase modifies "cat".
Watch out for this error:
"I stared at my reflection, feeling a deep moral emptiness."—the second half is a participial phrase acting as an adjective modifying "I". This is a hanging participle, a type of dangling modifier, because it's next to the noun "reflection" but is modifying "I". This is considered a style error. Avoid having any nouns in between the phrase and the word modified by the phrase.
This is the correct answer to OP's question
This is why 'hearing the horde approaching' is a dependent clause no? The horde is still the subject, hearing is the predicate, yet no complete thought is expressed?
Different ways of describing essentially the same thing. This anons way is a bit better in this case however.
The horde would be the object
A sentence.
Apologies, you are right, horde is the object. However doesn't a tenseless verb act as a subject too? Eg. Hearing? Because the sentence is in first tense, the subject is accounted for by the narrator or something like that, still making it a clause?
No, hearing is a participle (a verbal adjective) describing Bob
It would be a clause instead of a phrase if it said:
>When he heard the horde approaching, Bob unsheathed his sword
But hearing in this case is a gerund not a participle. It acts as a noun.
modifying clause
No it isn't. If it was a gerund it would be the subject of the following clause, but it isn't. Bob is. It's a verbal adjective (participle) describing Bob.
Phrase
A gerund does not have to be the subject of the following clause. It can exist by itself.
Well it's still not a noun (gerund) in OP's example.
As a gerund it would be used like this:
>Hearing babies cry is stressful.
Correct
adverbially, the subject being understood to be the same as that of the main clause: Looking at the plans, I gradually came to see where the problem lay.
I think this is what's confusing me, as the thing im reading mentions a subject and clause on this case. Main clause seems to imply there is more than one in this case, is this wrong?
Or is it a participle clause?
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The natural way of learning a language. Grammar is just something placed on top that could take any other form. Most standard grammars are products of history and have lots of retarded shit in them too. Most parts of speech are random groupings with little reasoning. Like, what kind of retarded shit is the grouping 'adverb'?
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The sword would be the object actually
Continuity? Temporal Consistency?
In film editing we call it continuity.
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The horde is the object in the participle phrase
His sword is the object of the main clause
Exactly correct. I can't believe people don't understand this extremely basic shit.
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Its called Hysteron proteron.
Requesting some books on English grammar. Please help.
That's just a participial phrase.
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I don't see any contempt
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I learned it all from studying Latin desu
Are you a native speaker who doesn't know grammar rules or is English a second language for you?
Either way The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is pretty comprehensive. But I would mainly recommend getting a book or two on sentence diagramming. I don't have a specific rec for this as it's just something I learned in grade school. But if you can find a good book or online site about sentence diagramming, it will give you a much better understanding of English grammar and the structure of specific sentences. This seems good: german-latin-english.com
If English is your second language, would would also recommend Michael Swan's book Practical English Usage and Scott Thornbury's book Natural Grammar. The last one is more of a supplementary text. Each small chapter is arranged around key words and collocations so it's more of a bottom up approach. But it has a lot of exercises and good sentences. However, if English is your native language you'll probably find it worthless.
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Someone may have already posted it but it's called a Periodic sentence vs. a Cumulative sentence.
This is the answer.