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 phrases/clauses).
Here are a couple examples:
"The fire, yellow and orange, warmed the room." - adjective appositive
This page cached by Google calls this an adverb appositive: "The man shouted loudly, (which was) even frantically, to calm the crowd".
It explains, "Most appositive units can be considered nonrestrictive clauses with the relative pronoun and the verb deleted." I can see how an appositive can be seen as an elliptical nonrestrictive clause, but is there no other term for this usage of adjectives and adverbs? Perhaps you could even explain it as an elliptical participial phrase: "The fire, (being) yellow and orange, warmed the room." That doesn't work for the adverb appositive, though.
So, what are your thoughts? What would you call this and how would you explain it?
Here are a couple examples:
"The fire, yellow and orange, warmed the room." - adjective appositive
This page cached by Google calls this an adverb appositive: "The man shouted loudly, (which was) even frantically, to calm the crowd".
It explains, "Most appositive units can be considered nonrestrictive clauses with the relative pronoun and the verb deleted." I can see how an appositive can be seen as an elliptical nonrestrictive clause, but is there no other term for this usage of adjectives and adverbs? Perhaps you could even explain it as an elliptical participial phrase: "The fire, (being) yellow and orange, warmed the room." That doesn't work for the adverb appositive, though.
So, what are your thoughts? What would you call this and how would you explain it?
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They are not necessarily noun phrases.
they are phrases, clauses, either one or more words, and (further) explain or identify the noun (phrase) next to it
Here are a couple examples:
"The fire, yellow and orange, warmed the room." - adjective appositive Yes.
This page cached by Google calls this an adverb appositive: "The man shouted loudly, (which was) even frantically, to calm the crowd". Yes.
It explains, "Most appositive units can be considered nonrestrictive clauses with the relative pronoun and the verb deleted."
This is not true.
My sister who died in a car accident last week is... .the appositive here is a non-restrictive relative clause. It says I have now the same but one number of sisters.
My sister, who died... , restrictive rc, comma is needed. I used to have only one sister. The reative clause (parenthetical element) is set off by a set of commas.
I can see how an appositive can be seen as an elliptical nonrestrictive clause, but is there no other term for this usage of adjectives and adverbs?
Appositives are not always ellipted non restrictive clauses!
Perhaps you could even explain it as an elliptical participial phrase: "The fire, (being) yellow and orange, warmed the room." That doesn't work for the adverb appositive, though.
"(being) yellow and orange" may be interpreted as an ellipted participle phrase (adjectival) in appositive function.
So, what are your thoughts? What would you call this and how would you explain it?
appositives are modifiers.
To my knowledge, there is no such thing as an adverb appositive.
An adverb modifies an adjective or an adverb.