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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

An appositive "of"

With her big round eyes, here button nose and her I'm ready-for-fun expression, the kitten named cc (short for carbon copy and copy cat) has a face that's almost impossible not to love, which may help explain why the hostility that usually accompanies new on the cloning front was drowned out last week by the sound of the press corps cooing on cue.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know here if "of" is an appositive "of."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joonI'd like to know here if "of" is an appositive "of."
Is that what you meant to write?
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park sang joonI'd like to know here if "of" is an appositive "of."
Yes, where appositive 'of' is an 'of' of the type described below.

of: used as a function word to indicate a particular example belonging to the class denoted by the preceding noun <the city of Rome> (Merriam-Webster)

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