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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