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Adposition vs Apposition - What's the difference?

adposition | apposition |

In grammar terms the difference between adposition and apposition

is that adposition is an element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context while apposition is a construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

adposition

English

(wikipedia adposition)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.

    • Hyponyms

    * preposition * postposition * circumposition

    apposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  • The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  • The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
  • A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  • In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  • (rhetoric) Appositio