Chicken Sandwich
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2010
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Netherlands
I have no intention to glorify “H.H.” No doubt, he is horrible, is is abject, he is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery perhaps, but (he) is not conducive to attractiveness.
From Nabokov's Lolita. Why is it possible to leave out "he", as the author did in the example above. I never know when I can and when I cannot leave out the personal pronoun. Do you leave them out when it's clear what the pronoun would have been?
Are there any rules that govern this principle?
Thank you in advance.