-
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...
- subseq[uently
became a] ...
simple possessive ... or as
equivalent to an
appositive phrase ...".
Because a
possessive is
itself a
determiner phrase, possessives...
- 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...
- it’s what
Chhaava has been
building up to. The Christ-like
imagery is
apposite,
given the all-round love for
medieval punishment. But the film’s lack...
-
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 –...
- 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...
- noun adjunct,
attributive noun,
qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or
apposite noun is an
optional noun that
modifies another noun;
functioning similarly...
-
legend about Dido, the
foundress of Carthage, as
related by
Trogus is
apposite. Her
refusal to wed the
Mauritani chieftain Hiarbus might be indicative...
- flag of the
Regione Siciliana in
January 2000,
after the p****ing of an
apposite regional law
which advocates its use on
public buildings,
schools and city...
