Why she chooses to be appositional when it's so clearly counterproductive is simply beyond me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-Supporter Patrick Leahy Calls On Hillary To Drop Out Of Race] Reference

It is not meant to be used as a subject or object pronoun but as a sort of appositional after a subject noun/pronoun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burlington Township S.D. response on the ObamaHymn (Copy-edited.) - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

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 the third case, Dr. King, Principal … is quite correct because Principal … is an appositional noun phrase that explains Dr. King, whose quite proper salutation is ‘Dr. King’ and not ‘Principal King’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burlington Township S.D. response on the ObamaHymn (Copy-edited.) - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

Kol before 'asher lies on the borderline between partitive genitive and appositional genitive (K.S. 337 h).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Therefore the author inserted an appositional mayim, "waters," to indicate at once what manner of destruction was meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

K.S. renders the phrase literally: "In the year (which coincides with) the six hundredth year," making it an appositional genitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

The two nouns are not in construct relationship but purely appositional as is often the case with terms of weight and measure (K.S. 333 e).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Egypt, bringing his total age (i.e. "the days of Jacob" or, as the appositional statement has it: "the years of his life") up to 147 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

If Margaret is merely appositional, then we'd do well to wrap it in commas, and then (1) becomes strange (indicated with #), because the first occurrence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Language Log] Reference

A colon is used to introduce a series of particulars, either appositional or explanatory, which the reader has been led to expect by the first clause of the sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

(Note how I ingeniously stretch and mold my internships and academic experience to the course topic, using tenuous and tangential synonyms and appositional associations.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yale Daily News - Latest Issue] Reference

Though it goes without saying that Bilhah is "Rachel's handmaid," yet the appositional statement is inserted to indicate that she bore a son only in her capacity as a maid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

"This is my body — this is my blood", stood alone, But in the original text corpus (body) and sanguis (blood) are followed by significant appositional additions, the Body being designated as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Body given to the Apostles was the self same Body that was crucified on Good Friday, and the Chalice drunk by them, the self same Blood that was shed on the Cross for our sins, Therefore the above-mentioned appositional phrases directly exclude every possibility of a figurative interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

"as many as," for the partitive idea here actually merges into the appositional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

She, or her editor, employ appositional translation of Spanish language terms, the italicized Spanish accompanied with an English translation -- "my aunts admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Bloga] Reference

Posted by: Ray at May 27, 2004 10:05 PM though this one's propagation seems just another case of a barbarian meme smashing through the gates, it does have classical antecedents (if anyone cares). as a lifelong Latinist, no amount of reader-cavillings has been able to dissuade me from the introductory clause of a gerund appositional to the entire sentence(the "nominative absolute construction", to borrow its Roman title), or as some sort of prepositional clause not linked to the subject ("ablative absolute").    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING.] Reference

appositional, 202.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

The "appositional genitive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference

/appositional genitive/:/54/157.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference