- and the
element indentifying the
other is
called the
appositive. The
identification of an
appositive requires consideration of how the
elements are used...
- writer's
parentage as "Mother
Teresa and the pope" can be read as an
appositive phrase renaming of my parents,
leading the
reader to
believe that the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 –...
- 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...
-
adjective and an
anarthrous nominal premodifier, is a kind of
preposed appositive phrase before a noun
predominantly found in
journalistic writing. It formally...
