Type of usage
1) The Jack The Ripper Murders occured in the vicinity of White Chapel in London and caused
much publicity and fear at this time. However, Jack The Ripper has become
something of an enduring passion for fans of true crime and British history, a strange legacy to a series of historically unsolvable crimes.
2)The Jack The Ripper Murders occured in the vicininty of White Chapel in London and caused
much publicity and fear at this time. However, Jack The Ripper has become
something of an enduring passion for fans of true crime and British history, a passion that continues to flourish to this day.
So when the noun phrase 'a strange legacy...' appears at the end of the sentence does it describe only the sentence that comes before it or the themes/ideas of the whole paragraph? Are they're any rules governing this type of usage?
I can just place a phrase at the end of a sentence that is semantically related but does not modify any particular word?
Is the phrase 'a passion that continues to flourish to this day' in apposition to 'enduring passion'?
They are not side by side but it is clearly functioning in the same way as if it was. So, do we still class it as in apposition.
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Your examples are restatements or rewordings of something previously mentioned in the sentence, so they function the way appositives do to that extent, but appositives follow the nouns they restate, so we can't call these appositives. You can have a word or phrase at the beginning or end of a sentence that modifies the whole sentence rather than a word or sentence part. That is called an absolute.
- Your examples are restatements or rewordings of something previously mentioned in the sentence, so they function the way appositives do to that extent, but appositives follow the nouns they restate, so we can't call these appositives.
- You can have a word or phrase at the beginning or end of a sentence that modifies the whole sentence rather than a word or sentence part.
- That is called an absolute.
- But what you have here is not an example of that.
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Your examples are restatements or rewordings of something previously mentioned in the sentence, so they function the way appositives do to that extent, but appositives follow the nouns they restate, so we can't call these appositives.
You can have a word or phrase at the beginning or end of a sentence that modifies the whole sentence rather than a word or sentence part. That is called a
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