appositive

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01b10The fact that you can leave out one of the appositives in a sentence and employ its counterpart as the subject of the sentence12b12blockquote

10 I'm not so sure that that is really a fact!02br
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00 I would call the bracketed part an appositive, yes.02br
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00 CJ02br

0Hi,02br
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00I'd like to make a small comment that the use of brackets here seems a little odd and awkward to me.02br
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00Clive0-

1b00Hi, Clive,02b02br
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01b00 Why is that? What is odd about the use of the brackets? Though, you may not know , originally there wasn't any bracket in that sentence until I added them to point out that part of the sentence. If yet you see any other oddness ,I'd like to hear it. 02b0-

0 00I agree with Clive. "A home to the birds" and "a sanctuary for the birds" 00 00are nice but "home to the birds sanctuary" is wrong. 00 02br
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0 It's "home to the finest bird sanctuary", where "home to" means "location of", so it's OK! This expression is common with superlatives, as shown below.02br
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01i00Home to the world's biggest stadium, city-X is ...02br
00 Home to the largest mall in the U.S., city-Y is ...02br
00 Home to the tallest skyscraper, city-Z is ...02i

0 Hi CJ02br
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00I see! I didn't know that kind of collocation. By the way which one did you mean in the reply to K.O. that "home" is appositive to "sanctuary" or that "home" is appositive to "Rajasthan"? And is "home to .. sanctuary" a noun phrase or an adjectival phrase? To me, it sounds like an adjectival. I mean the sentence is the one made by the deletion of "being" f

0Hi KO,02br
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00Generally speaking, I'd say that brackets (parentheses in AmE) are not used a lot in formal writing. The oddness in your example is due to the fact that one phrase in apposition has brackets. They just don't work with appositives.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-

0 Clive,02br
00 I think KO has been trying to tell us that the sentence does not have any brackets in it.02br
00The only reason he put them there was to point out which part of the sentence he was referring to when he asked if it was an appositive. This is much the same as underlining or using italics to call attention to some aspect of a sentence, even though the ori

0 Paco,02br
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00 I meant 01i00home02i00 was appositive to 01i00Rajasthan02i00. Since 01i00home to02i00 means 01i00location of02i00, the whole phrase is headed by a noun and must be a noun phrase. The phrase is saying 01i00home to ... sanctuary (01u00and home

0 Hello CJ 02br
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00Thanks, I see. So, I believe we can say like "Wife to the former US President, Hilary Rodham Clinton is speculated to run in 2008". Right? To me, "Hilary Rodham Clinton, wife to the former US President, is speculated to run in 2008" seems to be a more natural sentence when we use "wife" in apposition to Hilary.02br
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00paco 0-