Apposition
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 778.
An apposition is a special kind of attribute which is expressed by a noun (with or without accompanying words) which characterizes or explains the word modified by giving the person or thing another name.
| Apposition | |
| Close apposition | Loose or detached apposition |
| These word-groups consist of the name of a person and a noun denoting a title, rank, profession, geographical name (the city of London) | It is always separated by commas and has a stress of its own |
| Even Aunt Ann was there. Professor Sommerville practised what he preached. | The Dr. Smith, my professor, was a classmate of my father's. |
Ex. 25. Point out the apposition and say whether it is close or loose.
1. Maria, the mother, had not taken off her shawl. 2. One of our number, a round-faced, curly-haired little man of about forty, glared at him aggressively. 3. There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford. 4. You look all right, Uncle Soames. 5. James, a slow and thorough eater, stopped the process of mastication. 6. He felt lost, alone there in the room with that pale spirit of a woman. 7. But the doctor — a family physician well past middle age — was not impressed. 8. They, the professors, were right in their literary judgement... 9. In consequence neither Oscar nor his sister Martha had had any too much education or-decent social experience-of any kind. 10. But now he had seen that world, possible and real, with a flower of a woman...
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