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- noun Plural form of
appositive .
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Examples
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Note: This case of linked appositives is different from the first.
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Figuring how much (if any) grammar stuff I need to teach my students (passive voice, dangling verbals, punctuating appositives, whatever)
Archive 2009-03-01 Bardiac 2009
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Figuring how much (if any) grammar stuff I need to teach my students (passive voice, dangling verbals, punctuating appositives, whatever)
Thinking about Teaching Comp Bardiac 2009
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In modern French usage, however, clauses – either appositives or subsequent actions – can be stacked, thus creating sentences that are extremely long by English standards and which translate clumsily.
French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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It also arises in situations with personal addresses (Dr., Mr., etc.), positions, and professional titles (when they are not used as appositives).
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The poem, as compact as it is, has the qualities of the bardic, its repetitions and its catalogues of epithets and appositives.
Patrick Rosal reads Robert Hayden Lemon Hound 2008
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His prose is meticulous, slow, every sentence given its own weight; some readers may pause at his tendency to utilize unorthodox sentence structure or a streak of appositives, but those who savor the words will be rewarded by their richness.
Drowning Or Waving iamrazorwing 2008
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The poem, as compact as it is, has the qualities of the bardic, its repetitions and its catalogues of epithets and appositives.
Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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Strunk and White caution against too many simple sentences in a row, but simple sentences provide a path you can follow when you fear getting lost in the tangles of rhetoric—all those restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses, those modifying phrases, those appositives and compound-complex sentences.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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The passages which the translator has omitted are not the obscure episodes or the long digressions, but the metaphors, the parenthetical phrases, and especially kennings and similar appositives.
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
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