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apposition
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apposition
Biology growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposition of successive layers of material


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The French appositive structure would be better translated "As the people of the new covenant," since there are no other such peoples besides the Church.
There developed a style of writing that presented the experiment by an "ornate sentence structure, with appositive clauses piled on top of each other," in order "to convey circmnstantial details and to give the impression of verisimilitude" (p.
Yes, then is the time to troop out the Frost chestnut about appositive adjectives from "Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening": "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" is a long way from "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
 
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