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An Appositive Adjective is a traditional grammatical term for an adjective (or a series of adjectives) that follows a noun and, like a nonrestrictive appositive, is set off by commas or dashes. Appositive adjectives often appear in pairs or groups of three (tricolons).
- What is an example of an appositive?
- Is appositive a noun or adjective?
- What is appositive phrase and examples?
- What are 10 adjectives examples?
- What is the appositive phrase in this sentence?
- What is a simple phrase?
What is an example of an appositive?
Appositives are nouns or noun phrases that follow or come before a noun, and give more information about it. For example, ... “a golden retriever” is an appositive to “The puppy.” The word appositive is derived from the Latin phrases ad and positio meaning “near” and “placement.”
Is appositive a noun or adjective?
The appositive is not an adjective.
This is the most straightforward type of apposition in English. An apposition is a noun/ noun group, after a noun, giving additional information to the first noun and separated with commas.
What is appositive phrase and examples?
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames the noun next to it. For example, if you said, "The boy raced ahead to the finish line," adding an appositive could result in "The boy, an avid sprinter, raced ahead to the finish line."
What are 10 adjectives examples?
Examples of adjectives
- They live in a beautiful house.
- Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt today. This soup is not edible.
- She wore a beautiful dress.
- He writes meaningless letters.
- This shop is much nicer.
- She wore a beautiful dress.
- Ben is an adorable baby.
- Linda's hair is gorgeous.
What is the appositive phrase in this sentence?
An appositive noun or noun phrase follows another noun or noun phrase in apposition to it; that is, it provides information that further identifies or defines it. Such “bonus facts” are framed by commas unless the appositive is restrictive (i.e., provides essential information about the noun).
What is a simple phrase?
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A phrase is a group of words that adds meaning to a sentence. A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject, verb and a predicate. In English there are five different kinds of phrases, one for each of the main parts of speech.
