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- Practice the English pronunciation of apposition with real speech in context.
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- Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
And this is, again, a very Renaissance apposition.
- Definition summary
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
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How to pronounce apposition
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
And this is, again, a very Renaissance apposition.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
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