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Example sentences for "appositive"

Lexicographically close words:
apposed; apposite; appositely; appositeness; apposition; appoynt; appoynted; appoyntement; appraisal; appraisals
  1. The appositive participle, representing other sentences, may express various relations: as, (a.

  2. The appositive participle is a loose substitute for a subordinate sentence introduced by a relative or by a conjunctive particle.

  3. The verb sometimes agrees with an appositive explaining the subject, or with a substantive in the predicate: as, (a.

  4. That of the predicate noun or of the appositive with the noun to which it belongs (§§76, 81).

  5. An appositive agrees in case with the noun which it explains.

  6. This relation makes the appositive group of words a part of what has gone before, thus ending the first clause with the end of the appositive group of words.

  7. The more natural position of this appositive group of words is immediately after the first "you"; but even here it would require the commas, because it is an appositive.

  8. The group of words enclosed in parenthesis is an appositive of "British democracy," appositional in form and adjectival in meaning.

  9. The first comma and dash perform a double office: they indicate and set off the appositive group that follows, and also act as the dash and comma in the preceding example.

  10. Thus the dash is an aid to the comma in grouping the appositive words, especially when following a thought only implied.

  11. The combination of a comma and a dash to express apposition is most useful when the thing to be explained by the appositive words is suggested, as in No.

  12. Because of this similarity, it is sometimes called an appositive relative clause.

  13. Similar to the appositive is the explanatory relative clause.

  14. One use of the comma is to set off an appositive for example Mr Kearne the buyer has left the city.

  15. Appositive of another noun in the objective case.

  16. To distinguish an appositive clause from a restrictive clause, the former is called a non-restrictive clause.

  17. The comma is used to separate an appositive from the rest of the sentence.

  18. When there is unusually close connection between the appositive and the noun it modifies.

  19. When the appositive is a word or phrase to which attention is called by italics or some other device which sets it apart.

  20. The comma is omitted (1) When the appositive is part of a proper name.

  21. Appositive words and phrases are separated from the remainder of the sentence by commas.

  22. A dash is sometimes used alone before an appositive phrase or clause.

  23. An appositive is in the same case as the substantive which it limits.

  24. An adjective in the appositive position is often called an +appositive adjective+ (§ 172).

  25. To set off an appositive noun or an appositive adjective, with its modifiers.

  26. It is as well, however, to treat the appositive as the modifier and then to enumerate the adjectives, etc.

  27. If a noun and its appositive are so closely connected as to form one idea, no comma is used.

  28. The predicate nominative (bugler) is modified by the adjective the and the appositive John Wilson.

  29. An +appositive adjective+ is added to its noun to explain it, like a noun in apposition.

  30. In analyzing, the whole appositive phrase (consisting of the appositive and attached words) may be regarded as modifying the subject.

  31. The direct object (brother) is modified by the possessive pronoun my and the appositive mayor.

  32. A substantive added to another substantive to explain it and signifying the same person or thing, is called an appositive and is said to be in apposition.


    33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appositive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.