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* Grammar and usage Explanation and practice Definition: a construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence. Please analyze this sentence. S=subject, P=predicate, O=object Attr=attributive, A=Apposition Nobody believed his reason for being absent from the class that he had to meet his uncle at the airport. S P O A Attr Find out the appositive in the following sentences: 1) Your brother, a proud and unbending man, refused all help that was offered him. 2) Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during the Second World War, died in 1965. 3) Playing football, his only interest in life, has brought him many friends. _____________________ __________________________ ____________________ 4) Only one problem still remains—the storage of the grain. 5) My father will go and see it himself. ____ _________________ ______ ____ ____________________ 6) My friends all understand me. 7) The question who should attend the meeting has not yet been steeled. 8) She liked her job, teaching English. 9) Lucy, in her youth a talented musician, still gives concerts every now and then. 10) Nothing is too hard for us Chinese people. _____ __________________________________ __________________________ ___________________________________________________ ____________ _____________ Read the passage about British traditions in Part A on page 41 and find out all the phrases in apposition in pairs. A Answers: 1. the British Queen, Elizabeth II 2. Horse Guards Parade, the entrance to the Royal Palace 3. the closest Saturday to 12 June, the day when her birthday is officially celebrated 4. a very colorful event, one that has become an institution for celebrating the King or Queen’s birthday since 1805 5. Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s home in London B Answers I’m very confused by the idea that red can mean revolution in France and a considerate nature in Indon