Appositives and nouns in apposition

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Is there any difference between appositives and nouns in appositions. I found it on the link below but wanted to confirm it qith you guys.

http://www.englishgrammartutor.com/Reader%20re%20comma%20and%20meaning.htm

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Inchoateknowledge · Accepted Answer

Other parts of speech can also be in apposition:

adjective apposition, adverb apposition, etc.

Mister Micawber · Answer

I can find the website, but I can't find your link, so I cannot judge what they wrote on appositives. I did notice that some of their terminology is odd if not incorrect, as for instance in the following. I have emboldened the highly questionable terms:

In the following sentence the content of the copular verb `have long heard' is named by the noun phrases `about World War Two'. This noun-phrase is followed by three adverb-led noun phrases – `from the point of view of veterans', `in books by contemporary historians', `in the writings of journalists' – that locate the context of the activity `have long heard' occurred. These locative noun phrases, being items of a list, must be demarcated. The first and the second are demarcated with a commas, the second and third with `and':

We have long heard about World War Two from the point of view of veterans, in books by contemporary historians and in the writings of journalists.

Hear is not a copular verb (though sound is), and the noun phrases are preposition~~led~~ the phrases as a whole are adverbial. As for your question, I suppose that they could be differentiated, in that the noun would be within the appositive, which is usually a noun phrase or clause:

An appositive is a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun. A simple appositive is an epithet like Alexander the Great. Appositives are often set off by commas. (Quoted from a different website)

Inchoateknowledge · Answer

epithet -- I have been chasing this term for ages.

I could not bring it to mind.

Grammarian-bot · Answer

Cool. Thank you Mister Micawber.
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Anonymous · Answer

An appositive is a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun. A simple appositive is an epithet like Alexander the Great. Appositives are often set off by commas. (Quoted from a different website)

I have another question. In the above definition, can apposition function as a adjective, adjective phrase or adjective clause? Because it remanes, defines, describe, or modifies a noun.

Thank you.

Anonymous · Answer

Mr Micawber, you said: 'Hear is not a copular verb (though sound is'. What? Are you seriously suggesting that some verbs are ingerently copular? Please, note this point urgently:

Copular-verb model of the basic sentence
The copular verb looks like a verb, and, like the verb, it denotes an activity. But otherwise, it behaves like a copula because it does not have an object. In the copular-verb sentence, the subject does not act upon the object, for it has no object; it has a complement. (A subject acts upon the object only when the sentence is a verb sentence.) A verb is not copular in its own right. Rather, it is copular when it has a complement that determines something about the activity it denotes:
http://www.englishgrammartutor.com/what%20is%20a%20sentence.htm#copular-verb model

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