Timeline for Difference between Adjective and Apposition
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| Feb 12, 2018 at 16:26 | answer | added | Lynne | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 2:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/605563113564422144 | ||
| Jun 1, 2015 at 17:59 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 15:46 | comment | added | choster | There are further ways to modify nouns; consider noun adjuncts, determiners, and intensive pronouns for example. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 15:40 | answer | added | Misti | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 15:32 | comment | added | R Mac | Generally, an appositive defines a specific case of the noun it follows. The example given by @DamkerngT. shows this very clearly. In that example, Mary is a named instance of the more general noun "friend". Adjectives, on the other hand, describe the noun they modify. Again going with the example, "My best friend, Mary, likes reading," best is an adjective which gives more information about the noun "friend", while "Mary" is an appositive naming a specific friend for the sake of clarification. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | To put it plainly, an appositive is a noun phrase that says something "equivalent" to the noun before it. An appositive is not an adjective, which modifies its noun. For example, in My best friend, Mary, likes reading, Mary is an appositive, i.e. Mary "is" my best friend. | |
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 13:49 | history | asked | user19059 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |