Лекции по теоретической грамматике английского языка. Тивьяева И.В. - 111 стр.

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2) the absolute construction.

The absolute construction expresses attending circumstances — something

that happens alongside of the main action. This secondary action may be the cause

of the main action, or its condition, etc., but these relations are not indicated by any

grammatical means.

The absolute construction is, as we have seen, basically a feature of literary

style and unfit for colloquial speech. Only a few more or less settled formulas such

as weather permitting may be found in ordinary conversation. Otherwise colloquial

speech practically always has subordinate clauses where literary style may have

absolute constructions.

6. Mixed type of composite sentences

Not every sentence we come across in a text or in oral speech is bound to be

either syndetic or asyndetic, either compound or complex, etc. Several or all of

these characteristics can be found in a sentence at the same time. It can contain

several clauses, some of them connected with each other syndetically, that is, by

conjunctions or connective words, while others are connected asyndetically, that is,

without any such words; some of the clauses are co-ordinated with each other,

while others are subordinate, so that another part of the whole sentence is complex,

etc. The amount of variations is probably unlimited. Such sentences are often

referred to as mixed sentences. Prof. Blokh uses the term complex-compound

sentence (or compound-complex sentence) to name a sentence that consists of

multiple independent clauses, at least one of which has at least one dependent

clause.

e.g. Though Lois was very jauntily attired in an expensively appropriate

travelling affair, she did not linger to pat out the dust which covered her clothes,

but started up the central walk with curious glances at either side. Her face was

very eager and expectant, yet she hadn’t at all that glorified expression that girls

wear when they arrive for a Senior Prom at Princeton or New Haven; still, as there

were no senior proms here, perhaps it didn’t matter. (F. S. Fitzgerald)