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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Predicate nomnatives

Can appositives be predicate nomnatives?
  

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Yes. That bright object in the sky is the planet Jupiter. Jupiter is an appositive to planet , which is a predicate nominative.

  • Yes.
  • That bright object in the sky is the planet Jupiter.
  • Jupiter is an appositive to planet , which is a predicate nominative.
  • CJ
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Yes.

That bright object in the sky is the planet Jupiter.

Jupiter is an appositive to planet, which is a predicate nominative.

CJ
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AnonymousCan appositives be predicate nomnatives?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'predicate nominative'. The word 'nominative' refers to the inflectional case of pronouns: I, he, she, we, they, who.

I rather suspect that when you say 'nominative' you actually mean 'nominal' (which is something else altogether) so you're possibly referr

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