Syntax of phrase “the word cancer” “The word skin cancer”
On one of the mornings of disposal, a man from a second-hand bookstore visited us, bought several hundred books, and told us of the death of his brother, the word cancer ingesting in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief”
E.B. White, Goodbye to 48th Street, Turtle Bay, November 12, 1957 Is cancer an appositive of “the word?”
If yes than what?
What matters is that for free people, we will continue to become the free public.
This is from the 1957 essay “Good bye to Forty-eighth Street” by E. B. White. With the word cancer exploding
in the bedroom, the final phrase has to be actually
“cancer”!! This makes the quoted text an appositive because it identifies the immediately preceding word “word”. ”
“: “Japanese people who live in India don’t care about being ignored seriously”.
This is from the 1957 essay “Good bye to Forty-eighth Street” by E. B. White. With the word cancer exploding
in the bedroom, the final phrase has to be actually
“cancer”!! This makes the quoted text an appositive because it identifies the immediately preceding word “word”. ”
“: “Japanese people who live in India don’t care about being ignored seriously”.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
This is from the 1957 essay “Good bye to Forty-eighth Street” by E. B. White. With the word cancer exploding
in the bedroom, the final phrase has to be actually
“cancer”!! This makes the quoted text an appositive because it identifies the immediately preceding word “word”. ”
“: “Japanese people who live in India don’t care about being ignored seriously”.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
This is from the 1957 essay “Good bye to Forty-eighth Street” by E. B. White. With the word cancer exploding
in the bedroom, the final phrase has to be actually
“cancer”!! This makes the quoted text an appositive because it identifies the immediately preceding word “word”. ”
“: “Japanese people who live in India don’t care about being ignored seriously”.
I misread the original question — yes, “the word” and “cancer” are in apposition to each other. What they are embedded in an absolute phrase, just in case you needed to know that.
When a participle and the noun that comes before it
combine to form an independent phrase definition, the structure is called an absolute phrase.
They ran down the hill but
still hid in the background. Wherever they were, these children are described. *The party having finally gone,* we started cleaning up the debris.
So in this case,
the word Cancer exploding in the living room like a time bomb detonated by his grief has
the same format. It follows the pattern for a phrase absolute.
