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appositions, only unlike appositions, they may refer to words of non-nominal nature (verbs, adverbs). Even
referring to nouns, they never qualify words, but particularize the notion.
Yet it worried her, this queer intensity of Hughie’s.
(appended subject)
I used to do as Jean Jacques did — lie down on my boat and get it glide whereas it would.
(appended predicate with dependent words)
Hughie wanted to be a star, a footballer in the big league.
(appended predicative)
And we’ll talk it over, every bit of it.
(appended object)
2. Appended modifiers of the second type form a string of homogeneous parts referring to a headword with a
general meaning (thing, problem, question, etc.). Here again the appended modifiers may refer to different parts
of the sentence.
She kept up her music, she read an awful lot - novels, poetry, all sorts of stuff .
She was allowed to choose things from the shop; jam, or paste, or biscuits, or the slab cake.
3. Appended parts of the third type - with a repeated headword - usually have an emphatic force.
There was only one road: the main road, the road that struck due east.
(appended subject)
He had his pride of course, the natural pride of a liberal enlighted man.
(appended object)
He had been a fool, a presumptuous fool.
(appended predicative)
In silence they stood, in mortal silence.
(appended adverbial modifier)
The emphatic force is often manifested by adverbs of degree, intensifying particles (just, even, especially,
particularly, at least, in particular), or modal words (in fact, indeed, etc.). The explanatory function is carried
out by modifying words or attributive clauses.
In one place Winterbourne found ... a French-woman with two starved children living in a cottage with
nothing but straw - literally nothing but straw...
They assured him that they were the only men - or almost the only men - left alive...
APPENDIX II
SOME SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES OF ANALYSIS
(syncretic forms, syntactic homonyms, dubious cases of analysis)
Though each sentence can be divided into parts as described in the section “Parts of the sentence”, the
attribution of some parts may present certain difficulties.
Here we may distinguish three cases.