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Adjective vs Appositive - What's the difference?

adjective | appositive |

In grammar|lang=en terms the difference between adjective and appositive

is that adjective is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent while appositive is (grammar): a word or phrase that is in apposition.

As adjectives the difference between adjective and appositive

is that adjective is (obsolete) incapable of independent function while appositive is of or being in apposition.

As nouns the difference between adjective and appositive

is that adjective is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent while appositive is (grammar): a word or phrase that is in apposition.

As a verb adjective

is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

adjective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
  • * 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
    • In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
  • (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
  • (legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
  • * Macaulay
    • The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
  • (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

    • Synonyms

    * (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural

    Antonyms

    * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive

    Derived terms

    * adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia adjective)
  • (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
    • The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
  • (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
    • (Fuller)

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (adjectiv)
  • To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
  • * Tooke
    • Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
  • * 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
    • In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages

    appositive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar): a word or phrase that is in apposition.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • of or being in apposition.
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