-
front door. The same
phrase can be a
restrictive appositive in one
context and a non-restrictive
appositive in another: My
brotherP NathanA is here. – Restrictive:...
- An
appositive colon also
separates the
subtitle of a work from its prin****l title. (In effect, the
example given above illustrates an
appositive use...
- good dancer. The
phrase a
great singer, set off by commas, is both an
appositive and a parenthesis. A dog (not a cat) is an
animal that barks. The phrase...
- writer's
mother because it uses
punctuation identical to that used for an
appositive phrase,
leaving it
unclear whether this is a list of
three entities (1...
-
Adjective Adjective phrase Adjunct Adpositional phrase Adverb Antecedent Appositive Argument Article Aspect Attributive adjective and
predicative adjective...
- noun adjunct,
attributive noun,
qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or
apposite noun is an
optional noun that
modifies another noun;
functioning similarly...
- subseq[uently
became a] ...
simple possessive ... or as
equivalent to an
appositive phrase ...".
Because a
possessive is
itself a
determiner phrase, possessives...
-
comma after "mother" is
conventionally used to
prepare the
reader for an
appositive phrase – that is, a
renaming of or
further information about a noun –...
-
adjective (see also:
Predicative expression,
Subject complement); or as an
appositive adjective within a noun phrase, e.g. "My kids, [who are]
happy to go for...
-
function as the
subject of a clause, a
predicate nominative, an
object or an
appositive. What she had
realized was that love was that
moment when your
heart was...
