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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

What is a syntactical relation?

apposition
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: a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence
[M-W's Col. Dic.]

What is a syntactical relation?
  

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The two nouns (referent and appositive) have the same syntax within the sentence. For example: My brother, the lawyer, is an ***. My brother and the lawyer are both singular nouns which have the same relationship to the verb ( My brother is; the lawyer is ).

  • The two nouns (referent and appositive) have the same syntax within the sentence.
  • For example: My brother, the lawyer, is an ***.
  • My brother and the lawyer are both singular nouns which have the same relationship to the verb ( My brother is; the lawyer is ).
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The two nouns (referent and appositive) have the same syntax within the sentence. For example:

My brother, the lawyer, is an ***. My brother and the lawyer are both singular nouns which have the same relationship to the verb (My brother is; the lawyer is).
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Thank you, Mr Micawber.

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