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Sometimes the kai does not appear after egeneto, egenethe, or estai, thus presenting a construction which we may denote by the phrase Apposition of Verbs.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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Apposition refers (mainly) to nouns and semantic clarification.
Cataloguing My Tics 2007
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Apposition may be used, so as to convert two sentences into one.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott
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Apposition may be used so as to convert two sentences into one.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott
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A Locative may take in Apposition the Ablative of urbs or oppidum, with or without a preposition; as, --
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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_Apposition_, in a grammatical sense, means something added, or names added, in order more fully to define or illustrate the sense of the first name mentioned.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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A Preposition is _a Part of Speech_, that serves to express the particular Relation and Circumstance of some other _Part of Speech_, and is either used in _Apposition_, as _in Heaven_; or in
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up early and to Mr. Moore, and thence to Mr. Lovell about my law business, and from him to Paul's School, it being Apposition-day there.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up early and to Mr. Moore, and thence to Mr. Lovell about my law business, and from him to Paul's School, it being Apposition-day there.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63 Samuel Pepys 1668
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