Robrebry Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Do noun phrases functioning as appositives constitute a complex sentence?
My brother, an excellent ice skater, rollerblades all summer long to keep his edge.
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Robrebry, Welcome to English Forums! No. A phrase does not normally constitute a sentence of any kind, no matter how it functions.
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Robrebry,
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No. A phrase does not normally constitute a sentence of any kind, no matter how it functions. A phrase is a unit less than a sentence.
The appositive "an excellent ice skater" may be thought of as a noun phrase created by "whiz" deletion ("who is an excellent ice skater") from an embedded subordinate clause, of course. But ev
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No. A phrase does not normally constitute a sentence of any kind, no matter how it functions. A phrase is a unit less than a sentence.
The appositive "an excellent ice skater" may be thought of as a noun phrase created by "whiz" deletion ("who is an excellent ice skater") from an embedded subordinate clause, of course. But ev
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