Appositional phrases - WordReference Forums
Jul 18, 2009 · Hi, everyone. A question more on grammar terminology than on grammar itself, here. The winter of '24, the coldest on record, was followed by a warm summer. The winter of '24, which is the coldest on record, was followed by a warm summer. In the former sentence, "the coldest on record" is an...
appositional or not? - WordReference Forums
May 19, 2022 · An appositional phrase can come before the noun it refers to, but this is not very common in English because, as you say, it is difficult to understand. Read this as: A uthenticity -- t he sum total of a community’s shared historical experience -- reflects a perceived line from a culturally idealized past to the present...
one to deny the pleasures of the flesh | WordReference Forums
Dec 9, 2013 · I agree that an appositional phrase follows the comma here: 'I have never been an ascetic, the kind of person to deny the pleasures of the flesh'. But I realy can't see an appositional phrase here: I have never been an ascetic, to deny the pleasures of the flesh'. Thank you for the answers, maybe some other ideas will help me understand this...
معتادين - WordReference Forums
Jul 1, 2013 · الان و بعد عدة سنوات من الفقر الشديد ,أصبح الناس معتادين على وضعهم الجديد. Now and after many years of the extreme poverty ,the people became _______their new situation . Please,translate the above for me , and correct my other mistakes Thanks in advance.
the reason why (noun clause or adjective clause)
Jan 12, 2013 · I think most experts would agree that the function of the why clause within such a phrase does not depend on the exact function of the whole phrase within a sentence. In other words, whether the phrase in question acts as subject, direct object, or what I was taught to call a "predicate noun" does not affect the function of the why clause ...
the coat, <she so often wears /the color of which> was terrible ...
Jan 9, 2015 · The final phrase 'was too short' can function as an appositional phrase, which may be what you had in mind when you posted your question. The coat she so often wears was terrible, was too short. If that is what you meant, I apologize for not having understood earlier.
قاتِل - فاعِل noun / adjective | WordReference Forums
Aug 9, 2016 · [قَاتِل noun & adjective: conversion a.k.a. zero derivation] Hi, Lexicographical terminology aside, قَاتِل can be a noun 'killer، murderer' (derived from the active participle of the verb قَتَلَ ) or an adjective 'killing, deadly'. I'd like to …
a coffee frontier steeped (steeps, or have steeped?) in...
Apr 26, 2014 · can only be integrated in the text as an appositional phrase if the following clause has a main verb to which the 'as' clause looks forward. ironman2012 is quite right to suggest that a main verb is needed; but it is needed outside the appositional phrase, not within it.
thinks herself <to be?> very intelligent | WordReference Forums
Dec 22, 2017 · Namaste, Dear members. Please tell me if my #3 is wrong. (I think it is right) 1- She thinks herself as very intelligent.:cross: 2- She thinks herself very intelligent.:tick: 3- She thinks herself to be very intelligent.:confused: If my #3 is correct, should I …
comma before 'of' [preposition]: Born in Bonn, of the Electorate of
Dec 17, 2009 · is a prepositional phrase acting as a modifier describing Bonn. a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany is a phrase in apposition to Bonn. It is an appositional phrase, because it renames Bonn, using different words [a part]. In a very abbreviated form, it would be "Bonn, a part of the Holy Roman empire."