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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...

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...