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Sunday, 5 August 2012

Noun phrases : apposition


Apposition is the use of two noun phrases next to each other, with one none phrase providing a definition of or extra information about the other noun phrase.  This is very common in journalism, and it shouldn't be difficult to find examples like the following in any English-language newspaper:



Apposition can simplify noun phrase construction.  Rather than writing "the film of Titanic", for example, we can just write "The film Titanic..."



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