An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that identifies or renames another noun. It is a way of adding details to a sentence. The appositive is placed near the word or phrase it identifies or renames, thus it is placed in apposition to that word or phrase.
Examples:
Mr. Mason, the manager, can answer your question.
You'll have to ask Mr. Mason, the man in the green vest.
Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases are placed side by side, with one element serving to define or modify the other. When this device is used, the two elements are said to be in apposition. For example in the phrase "my friend Alice" the name "Alice" is in apposition to "my friend".
A phrase that adds more details to a noun
an appositive doesn't add clauses to a sentence
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The appositive in the sentence is the noun Mike which renames the noun phrase 'your brother'.
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The appositive in the sentence is Bob Huylett, which renames the noun 'author'.
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An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The appositive in the sentence is Snow Fall which renames the noun 'poem'.
An appositive follows a noun. See examples below:My computer, a dinosaur from the last century, hasn't worked in years.The noun before the appositive is the word computer.The appositive phrase is highlighted.
Jon, the best student in the school, got an A in the exam.An appositive is a noun that comes before or after another noun that has the same meaning.In this sentence student is the appositive it means the same as Jon. The appositive comes after the subject Jon.'The best student in the school' is an appositive phrase.In the next example the appositive comes before the subject of the sentence:An excellent netball player, Sarah never misses a goal.Sarah is the subject. player is the appositive. Appositive phrase is 'an excellent netball player'.
an appositive doesn't add clauses to a sentence
The number that is positive Like -8 the appositive is 8 or 8 the appositive is 8
The number that is positive Like -8 the appositive is 8 or 8 the appositive is 8
The appositive is "a star", which renames the noun phrase "the sun".An appositive should be set off from the rest of the sentence by commas before and after.
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The noun"Violet" is appositive in that sentence. It renames the noun phrase "her sister".
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The appositive in the sentence is the noun Mike which renames the noun phrase 'your brother'.
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun or pronoun just before it.The appositive in the sentence is Bob Huylett, which renames the noun 'author'.
No, appositive is not a tense.An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. For example:An insect, a cockroach, is crawling in your shoe.In this sentence "a cockroach" is the appositive it renames "An insect".Another example:Jon, a very good chess player, won the game in less than an hour.
Appositives
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