Appositive noun phrase
"Labour lost in Merthyr, Derbyshire and the West Midlands– the last a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33%." (The Guardian.)
Is "a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33%" an appositive noun phrase in the above?
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Anonymous the last a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33%. I would call the part I quoted above a small clause, which is a noun phrase followed by any kind of phrase implicitly connected to the noun phrase by a non-finite linking verb: the last -mentioned region being a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33% . For a little more on small clauses see CJ
- Anonymous the last a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33%.
- I would call the part I quoted above a small clause, which is a noun phrase followed by any kind of phrase implicitly connected to the noun phrase by a non-finite linking verb: the last -mentioned region being a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33% .
- For a little more on small clauses see CJ
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Anonymousthe last a region that in 2015 voted Labour over the Tories by 42% to 33%.
I would call the part I quoted above a small clause, which is a noun phrase followed by any kind of phrase implicitly connected to the noun phrase by a non-finite linking verb: the last-mentioned region being a region that in 2015 vote
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