NONRESTRICTIVE APPOSITION (loose)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 564.

RESTRICTIVE APPOSITION (close)

ATTRIBUTES IN APPOSITION

Doctor Beddoes was called in. The plaintiff Jackson was sitting alone in the room.

· · is not separated by commas

· · the modified noun often takes NO- or THE-article

Jane, a daughter of my neighbor, was working in the garden..

This is a complaint of a respected citizen, Samuel Jackson.

· · is separated by commas à similar to parenthetical elements

· · does not influence the choice of articles

Exercise 9.3. Supply articles and explain the kind of apposition:

1. (...) Colonel Pollard. 2. (...) Inspector Craddock, of Scotland Yard. 3. William (...) Conqueror. 4. Edward (...) Confessor. 5. Peter (...) Great. 6. John (...) Baptist. 7. (...) River Mississippi. 8. (...) hotel "Majestic".9. (...) Gorky Street. 10. (...) Piccadilly Circus. 11. (...) newspaper "Star". 12. (...) ship "Queen Mary". 13. Byron, (...) great English poet. 14. (...) Rocky Mountains. 15. (...) Mount Elbrus. 16. Miss Tilda, (...) Head Waitress. 17. (...) Stewardess Jane. 18. (...) Lake Ontario. 19. (...) Regent Street. 20. (...) Anderson brothers. 21. Mr Smith, (...) Editor-in-Chief, (...) "Journal of Forestry". 22. Ronald F. Carster, (...) mining engineer. 23. (...) Moskva River. 24. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, (...) daughter of a retired colonel who had lost his temper and his digestion in India. 25. It wouldn't be hard to make up a story for (...) uncle Philip. 26. For some days Hotchkinson, (...) solicitor to whom Eden had deputed the case, sent me no news. 27. He had been to the tomb of Hafiz (...) poet. 28. Two men, (...) two passengers, came along the gangway, and she amused herself by trying to guess whether they were single or married. 29. Charles was dancing with his cousin, (...) good-looking, strapping girl. 30. Even Mr March, (...) most realistic man there, could not forgive me. 31. He now arranged with Spender, (...) editor of "The Times Literary Supplement", to write articles on current French literature. 32. They drove up to the terminal, (...) brightly lighted and air-conditioned building. 33. I was chatting with the man's wife, (...) lady in purple trousers, when he was called to the telephone. 34. In the rear of the car, Margaret Howden, (...) wife of the President of the firm, said to her husband: "You look tired." 35. He's (...) Doctor Evans, (...) nephew of your host tonight. 36. The principal of the school decided to send (...) boy Chalmers back home. 37. That evening I was introduced to (...) Captain Riley.