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  • curprev 03:5503:55, 6 June 2024Mike Schwartz talk contribs 11,077 bytes 0 →‎top: Change the word "appositions" to "appositives" in the sentence starting with the adverb "Traditionally". When the word "apposition" is used, it is typically in a prepositional phrase such as "in apposition", and [hence] it is a "mass" noun (= an "uncountable" noun), which is not suitable for being "pluralized" by adding a suffix such as the letter "s". The correct use of the countable noun "appositive" (singular or plural, without or with an "s"), is introduced earlier in this article. undo

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  • curprev 03:0703:07, 19 January 2021BetseyTrotwood talk contribs 10,827 bytes −1 →‎Examples: Removed unnecessary period after "arrived" in: "A kind of appositive is the false title, a restrictive phrase, as in "Noted biologist Jane Smith has arrived.", where the phrase Noted biologist is used as an informal title." undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

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  • curprev 12:0112:01, 29 May 2013Dubmill talk contribs 8,627 bytes −693 IMO, existing examples do not give that impression. Furthermore, as per previous edit, citation is not formatted correctly. Also, the wording of these examples appears absurd, and they were confusingly just appended to a statement about something else. undo
  • curprev 11:0811:08, 29 May 2013Spannerjam talk contribs 9,320 bytes +693 The newly added example which was removed is helpful, because the examples that exists as of now gives the impression that proper nouns/proper names are needed for apposition. undo

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  • curprev 22:3722:37, 4 January 2012Geoffhenderson444 talk contribsm 9,229 bytes −12 I deleted "restrictive" from "the restrictive commas" in the 7th para because it was confusing. The rule according to the 5th para is that commas must be used in the case of non-restrictive apposition, so "restrictive commas" is wrong. undo

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  • curprev 23:1123:11, 4 December 2008Codairem talk contribsm 7,085 bytes −8 Previous version said "the appositive phrases are offset in italics", but confusingly the italics were used not only for the the phrase in apposition, but for the noun phrase it's in apposition to. I restricted the italics to agree with what's promis undo

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  • curprev 17:0017:00, 10 April 2007Donnaroyston talk contribs 4,737 bytes −465 I deleted paragraph that said that speakers tend to use appositives less, and use parentheses instead. In speaking, you cannot see someone using parentheses. It sounds no different from an appositive. undo

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