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Vcolts Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Appositive Question?

Mr. Micawber told me that the following sentences are grammatically correct and they are appositives.

Ex1: It's all about how you think, how you approach.

Ex2: It's all about how to think, how to approach.

Now the questions:

Websites on internet say that appositives include a noun or a noun phrase.

The clauses in red are dependant clauses (practically not a phrase). They are okay because they contain a pronoun?

The phrases in blue do not contain a noun or even a pronoun.

Is there a website that indicates that appositives can also contain clauses and phrases that do not contain a noun?
  

Top answer

The blue phrases are objects of a preposition ('about'), so they must be nouns as a whole (as contrasted with 'containing nouns').

— Mister Micawber

  • The blue phrases are objects of a preposition ('about'), so they must be nouns as a whole (as contrasted with 'containing nouns').
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The blue phrases are objects of a preposition ('about'), so they must be nouns as a whole (as contrasted with 'containing nouns').
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Is there a site/link or a section in a typical grammar book that explains that? - How the objects of somethings gets treated as a noun as a whole? I guess what I am asking is: What do you call that terminology wise?

What about the clauses in red?

Thanks.
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The clauses in red are more obviously clauses acting as noun objects of the preposition. I don't think there is any further term. Clauses can function as most any part of a sentence except the verb.

What you're eating looks repulsive.

I cannot see over the fence without standing on a box.

Sitting on the fence, the bird could see both gardens.
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