Apposition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPOSITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the position of a word parallel to another in syntactic relation
• the positioning of things side by side or close together.
• a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent (e.g. my friend Sue; the first US president, George Washington).
• The act of adding; application; accretion.
• The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
• The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
• a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
• (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
• the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• 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 (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Burns”); the relation of one of such a pair of nouns or noun equivalents to the other

Words related to APPOSITION

appositional16 appositions15

Words that contain APPOSITION

appositions15 appositional16

How to use APPOSITION in a sentence

• Of Apposition Observations on Rule III False Syntax under Rule III Rule IV.
• A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding noun or pronoun, is put, by apposition, in the same case.
• In this case of apposition, the words are in general closely united, and either of them may be taken as the explanatory term.
• But this apposition is only a sameness of construction, so that what governs the one, virtually governs the other.
• Some grammarians seem not to have considered this phraseology as coming within the rule of apposition.
• What agreement is required between words in apposition? 4.
• Are words in apposition always supposed to be in the same case? 7.
• Is there a construction of like cases, that is not apposition? 12.
• To which of the apposite terms is the rule for apposition to be applied? 13.
• Wherein are the common rule and definition of apposition faulty? 15.
• Why cannot two nouns, each having the possessive sign, be put in apposition with each other? 18.
• How can a noun be, or seem to be, in apposition with a possessive pronoun? 21.
• Can words differing in number be in apposition with each other? 24.
• When is an active verb followed by two words in apposition? 29.
• Does apposition require any other agreement than that of case? 30.
• When in apposition with any body, it suffers variable degrees of decomposition, resulting in color, as by reflection, dispersion, refraction, and unequal absorption.
• Words or expressions in apposition should be separated by a comma.
• Windows, with no shade, or shutter, were set, two on a side, in perfect apposition.

Similar words containing APPOSI without suffix tion

apposing13 apposite12 appositely17 appositive17 inapposite14 appositions15 appositives18 appositeness16 appositional16 appositively22 inappositely19 appositenesses18 inappositeness18 inappositenesse19 inappositenesses20

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