{"id":245,"date":"2003-11-03T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=245"},"modified":"2003-11-03T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T08:25:08","slug":"on-appositives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/on-appositives\/","title":{"rendered":"On appositives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/handouts\/grammar\/g_appos.html\">From the Purdue writing lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An appositive is a noun or pronoun &#8212; often with modifiers &#8212; set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The newspaper biz&#8217;s favorite use of the appositive is to put quotes around the name of a spouse &#8230; &#8220;Tom&#8217;s wife, Melissa,  told him to turn off that damn computer and help out with the dishes.&#8221;   See, you put the commas around Melissa because I&#8217;ve got just one wife, and leaving the commas off implies I&#8217;ve got others.    (<i>Pointless aside: I wonder how they deal with this at the Salt Lake Tribune &#8230;  I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;re a bit pickier about it in a city founded by polygamists. <\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Purdue writing lab. An appositive is a noun or pronoun &#8212; often with modifiers &#8212; set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify. The newspaper biz&#8217;s favorite use of the appositive is to put quotes around&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/on-appositives\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}