An associate
"BuzzFeed News first reported last year that Cohen and an associate, Felix Sater, had continued working on Trump Tower Moscow through June 2016."
Is there any grammatical agreement between the determiner "an" in the noun phrase "an associate" and the appositive of that phrase, i.e.,"Felix Sater" in the sentence above?
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No, "an" governs only "associate". The part within the commas is independent of the article, and indeed could include its own article: ... Cohen and an associate, an unknown businessman, had continued ...
- No, "an" governs only "associate".
- The part within the commas is independent of the article, and indeed could include its own article: ...
- Cohen and an associate, an unknown businessman, had continued ...
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No, "an" governs only "associate". The part within the commas is independent of the article, and indeed could include its own article:
... Cohen and an associate, an unknown businessman, had continued ...
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