Question

Read the sentence. my neighbor eventually became assistant editor for the monthly review, a literary journal. which word or phrase is an appositive in the sentence?

Answer 1

An appositive is a noun or pronoun that appears next to another noun or pronoun to identify that word or to give more information about it. In the sentence in question, the apossitive is the NP "a literary journal". This NP identifies the NP "the monthly review".

Appositives can either be essential or nonessential depending on the type of information they add to the sentence. The first ones provide necessary information for the sentence to be clear and are not set off with commas. On the contrary, non-essential appositives add information to a sentence that is already clear and are set off with commas. In this case, the appositive is nonessential.

Answer 2

An appositive is a noun or phrase describing a noun right beside it. In this sentence, the appositive is "a literary journal. "