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Panda blue 483 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Type of usage

and the boys name wasn't entirely out of the ordinary, Johnathan.

and she was rigidly controlled by her choir-mistress mum, Hilary.


What do we call this usage when the comma set's off the name, as apposed to putting 'named' or 'called' before the name.

  

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panda blue 483 What do we call this usage when the comma set's sets off the name, as o pposed to putting 'named' or 'called' before the name ? It's a non-restrictive proper noun in apposition. CJ

  • panda blue 483 What do we call this usage when the comma set's sets off the name, as o pposed to putting 'named' or 'called' before the name ?
  • It's a non-restrictive proper noun in apposition.
  • CJ
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panda blue 483What do we call this usage when the comma set's sets off the name, as opposed to putting 'named' or 'called' before the name?

It's a non-restrictive proper noun in apposition.

CJ

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