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adj. - Relating to or being in a grammatical construction in which a noun or a pronoun immediately follows and means the same as another noun or pronoun.

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  • Why she chooses to be appositional when it's so clearly counterproductive is simply beyond me.
  • It is not meant to be used as a subject or object pronoun but as a sort of appositional after a subject noun/pronoun.
  • In the first case, the implied subject of the sentence is ‘you’; in the second case, since there are only two alternatives, there is no need for a comma after your error; in...
  • Kol before 'asher lies on the borderline between partitive genitive and appositional genitive (K.S. 337 h).
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