Appositive Phrase
An appositive phrase is a noun phrase that renames or explains another noun in a sentence. It provides additional information about the noun it follows and is set off by commas. For example, in the sentence "My friend, a talented artist, painted a beautiful mural," the appositive phrase "a talented artist" provides more detail about the noun "friend."
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eBook - ePubA Sentence Diagramming Primer
The Reed & Kellogg System Step-By-Step
- Judith Coats(Author)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- Page Publishing, Inc.(Publisher)
...Phrases: The Appositive Phrase Grammatical explanation. The Appositive Phrase is a group of words that will always follow a noun or pronoun that the phrase is renaming. One important thing to remember is this: the Appositive Phrase will always rename and never describe because within the phrase itself will be a noun or pronoun that renames the noun or pronoun that came before. Here is an example sentence with an Appositive Phrase: Our farm, a brown homestead, provides much rest for us. Homestead renames farm. Here is an example of two adjectives after a noun that are not an Appositive Phrase. Sometimes people confuse adjectives that follow a noun and an Appositive Phrase. They should not be confused. In “Our farm, old and serene, provides much rest for us,” old and serene are simply adjectives that describe farm, not being appositives. Diagramming explanation. Once again, the logic of our language kicks in here. All appositives, whether one word or a phrase, will be diagrammed within parentheses. The parentheses in diagramming will always signal an appositive of some kind. The following are sample sentences:...
eBook - ePubKoromu (Kesawai)
Grammar and Information Structure of a New Guinea Language
- Carol Priestley(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- De Gruyter Mouton(Publisher)
...Below, in example (5.113) the second noun phrase consists of a pre-head nominal of location modifying a common noun. This provides greater information about the referent of the initial pronoun. In (5.114) a kinship term is followed by a teknonym that provides greater detail about the member of kin. In (5.115) a common noun is followed by an appositive proper noun, a specific personal name. (5.113) Ni, Sisari wahira, am tukun-a-te, … 3s Sisari old.man eye close-3s-DR ‘He, the Sisari old man closed his eyes and … ’ T2.M.18 (5.114) Ya-ma, Upumati moto-ne, amkoru pasi-ia. tambu-P1s Upumati brother-P3s middle met-1p ‘We met my tambu, Upumati’s brother, in the middle.’ T2.15.59 (5.115) Henahina Yawa u mene-pe, … old woman Yawa there be-SR ‘The old woman Yawa, was there … ’ T2.33.9 An appositive noun phrase may be a pronoun with prominence marking if the speaker is attempting to get someone’s attention (5.116). It can also be a qualifier, a stylistic device that provides opportunity to give extra prominence or emphasis with numbers (5.117). (5.116) Ne, Home, ne=te, eno ya were hei-ae! You Home you=PNP over.there go see find-IMP2s ‘You, Home, you, go over there and see/look.’ T1.15.67 (5.117) … ou, nahe, nene aere u en-e … yam, taro, 3p two there lay-3p ‘ … yam and taro those two lay there … ’ T5.17.16...
eBook - ePubIntroducing English Syntax
A Basic Guide for Students of English
- Peter Fenn, Götz Schwab(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...we have a relative clause, in (17)b. a finite appositive clause introduced by the conjunction that, and in (17)c. a non-finite appositive clause introduced by the infinitive. These are constructions which we deal with in detail under ‘The Complex Noun Phrase’ in Chapter 10. Clauses like these involve subordination, which we introduce and discuss fully in Chapter 6. At this point we are just explaining the general principle of postmodification. In diagram form the composition of the noun phrases in (17) looks like this: We will not go into the further analysis of the postmodifying clauses now. As we have just said, this comes later. For the moment we will stay with phrases. Easily the most common phrase-type postmodifier is the prepositional phrase. In fact the relative clause in (17)a. can be reduced to the prepositional phrase on the corner without changing the meaning. This and further prepositional examples are shown in (19): p.73 (19) a. the man on the corner b. the legs of the table c. our grave doubts about the economy And in diagram form, for the sake of clarity: Traditionally, the head noun is called the antecedent of the postmodification. This may seem like just another term to refer to the same thing, but in fact it is a useful expression when talking specifically about the head noun in its relation to the postmodification and vice versa. Further structural elements functioning as postmodifiers are adverb phrases (here, over there, just now, then, etc.) and noun phrases with an adverbial-type meaning, such as last year and next door. As we will see further below, certain types of adjective phrase also appear as postmodifiers (see under 4.3). 4.1.2.1 The concept of restriction Most postmodifications are restrictive. This means that they identify or define their antecedent (and for this reason are known alternatively as defining postmodifications)...
eBook - ePub- Gerald Nelson(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...are said to be in apposition to each other. Further examples of apposition include: the Chinese capital, Beijing John’s favourite food, pasta the head of Microsoft, Bill Gates our good friends, the Browns Apposition is often used as a device for clarifying the meaning of the first noun phrase: ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) the larynx (voice box) 230 litres (50 gallons) In this type of ‘clarifying’ apposition, the word or is sometimes introduced between the two noun phrases: phototaxis, or light-directed motion vexillology, or the study of flags 3.7 Verb phrases Verb phrases (VPs) are very different from all other phrase types in terms of their structure. They do not have Heads, Premodifiers, or Postmodifiers. Figure 3.29 shows the basic structure of a VP. Figure 3.29 In terms of forms and functions, the VP has been taking photos appears as shown in Figure 3.30. Figure 3.30 The main verb (2.4) functions as the Predicator (Pred) in the VP. It is unnecessary to give a function label to the VP itself, since VPs only ever have one function in grammar. They are, as it were, the ‘engine room’ of the whole sentence. The first (or only) auxiliary verb (2.5) functions as the Operator (OP). The Operator has several important grammatical roles in the VP, which we will look at in section 3.7.1. All other auxiliary verbs are simply labelled Aux (auxiliary). Notice that the Direct Object (1.6.3) is a constituent of the VP in Figure 3.30...
