Definition of Appositives. Meaning of Appositives. Synonyms of Appositives

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Definition of Appositives

Appositive
Appositive Ap*pos"i*tive, a. Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. --Knatchbull.

Meaning of Appositives from wikipedia

- if the appositive were removed. In English, restrictive appositives are not set off by commas. The sentences below use restrictive appositives. Here and...
- subseq[uently became a] ... simple possessive ... or as equivalent to an appositive phrase ...". Because a possessive is itself a determiner phrase, possessives...
- noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is an optional noun that modifies another noun; functioning similarly...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- includes not only prepositional phrases but also dependent clauses, appositives, and other structures. There is some controversy regarding complex transitives...
- 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...
- 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...