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Surfer Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Noun Modifier

Hello, everyone..,

In the following statement:

Last year's charts was topped by team Alpha; there performance quite was stellar.
  

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Surfer Noun Modifier I suppose you're asking if 'team' modifies 'Alpha'. Actually, it's almost the other way around. 'Alpha' is in apposition to 'team'.

— CalifJim

  • Surfer Noun Modifier I suppose you're asking if 'team' modifies 'Alpha'.
  • Actually, it's almost the other way around.
  • 'Alpha' is in apposition to 'team'.
  • It's an appositive.
  • The pattern is the same for the following: the movie Fame the verb 'to be' the planet Jupiter CJ Note: charts were topped Note: their performance Note: was quite stellar What happened?
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SurferNoun Modifier
I suppose you're asking if 'team' modifies 'Alpha'. Actually, it's almost the other way around. 'Alpha' is in apposition to 'team'. It's an appositive. The pattern is the same for the following:

the movie Fame
the verb 'to be'
the planet Jupiter

CJ

Note: charts were topped
Not
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CalifJimI suppose you're asking if 'team' modifies 'Alpha'
You're right, and I actually did, but the text is not displayed.
CalifJimI suppose you're asking if 'team' modifies 'Alpha'. Actually, it's almost the other way around. 'Alpha' is in apposition to 'team'. It's an appositive. The pattern is the same for the following:
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No need to apologize; you're just a little late. English used to be a form of German, but it's been over a thousand years.
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Surfer all reflected some language phenomenon/thinking whereby meaning is concluded by bringing it into an ultimate form or state
That could be, but it's a rhetorical effect, not an issue of grammar.
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