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I can find the website, but I can't find your link, so I cannot judge what they wrote on appositives. I did notice that some of their terminology is odd if not incorrect, as for instance in the following. I have emboldened the highly questionable terms: In the following sentence the content...

Thanks for your replies! I can see this is an area of debate. Well, now I understand that appositives aren't necessarily nouns or noun phrases. The adjective appositive seems to make sense, but I think the so-called "adverb appositive" is an incorrect term. After all, an appositive renames or...

"I've come across the term "adjective appositive" and "adverb appositive" a few times, and I'm just wondering if this is widely-used. Is it an incorrect description of a construction that should be called something else? I'm asking this because I always see appositives defined as nouns (or noun...

Hello Jack The rules for relative adverb clauses are almost the same as for relative pronoun clauses. If no comma precedes 'where', the 'where' clause modifies the antecedent noun phrase restrictively. Your sentence is parsed as follows; "Much of industry is concerned with { (where...

Agreed, and yet, maybe it's the other way around: a false impression of a proper noun? At any rate, let's look back at the sentence taken from the New York Times: "In a world with a million things coming at you and especially in the United States where there's no aristocratic class, . . . ." ...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...