1. (of a noun phrase) coming immediately after another noun or noun phrase that refers to the same person or thing
   • ● In the phrase ‘Paris, the capital of France’, ‘the capital of France’ is an appositional clause/phrase.
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1. a noun phrase that comes immediately after another noun or noun phrase that refers to the same person or thing
   • ● Journalists are prone to pile up appositives between subject and verb.
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