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Definition of Appositives
1. appositive [n] - See also: appositive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appositives
Literary usage of Appositives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Latin Grammar by Albert Harkness (1898)
"The parts may be appositives or predicates of the whole, or the whole may be ...
appositives sometimes have nearly the force of subordinate clauses : Aedem ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1892)
"RULE П.—appositives. ... appositives are kindred ia force— 1) Generally to RELATIVE
clauses ..."
3. Sentence and Theme: Composition for the First Year of High School by Charles Henshaw Ward (1917)
"Ordinary appositives. A noun that is set alongside another noun or a ...
Separated appositives. An appositive may not be next to the word it explains. 1. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"appositives that do not meet all three criteria are said to be in partial apposition.
... In strict apposition the appositives belong to the same syntactic ..."
5. A Latin Composition: For Secondary Schools by Charles Edwin Bennett (1897)
"GRAMMATICAL REFERENCES.. Subject Nominative.,. 2; A. & G.. i; H. 368 and 2. 2.
Predicate Nouns.,. i, 2; A. & G.. a, b; H. 362. i, 2. 3. appositives.., 2, 3 ..."
6. English Grammar for Common Schools by Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf (1894)
"CASES OF appositives. (Review Lesson XXIX., page 43. ... In such cases the two
nouns may be considered as one i.ame, rather than as appositives. ..."
7. Elementary English Spoken and Written by Lamont Foster Hodge, Arthur Lee (1921)
"appositives In the sentence, " Longfellow, the poet, is loved by the ... EXERCISE I.
Point out the appositives in the following sentences and the noun ..."
8. A Brief English Grammar by Fred Newton Scott, Gertrude Buck (1906)
"appositives.—In the following sentences, "Goldsmith, the author of The Deserted
Village, belonged to the famous group of Dr. Johnson's friends," "Paul, ..."
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