According to The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, apposition is a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent. I think is pretty clear, isn’t it?
Well, lets look at a couple of examples:
Restrictive appositives specify the noun. The sentence wouldn’t have quite the same meaning without it.
-Former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld dismissed Al Jazeera as a “mouthpiece of Al Qaeda.”
- Teacher Niki Smith is going to a conference in Kansas City, MO.
Non-restrictive sentences give additional information that we can omit without changing the meaning of the sentence. Commas and parenthesis help us identify them.
-José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, was born in Valladolid in 1960.
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Valladolid... That's where I studied. Not the most exciting place in Spain, to be sure, but what fond memories I have of that place.
You are clearly comfortable with this topic and I wish everyone felt as comfortable with it as you do! I'm thinking about setting up study groups for the final, and I know you'll be so helpful for your group.
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