48. In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad,
a work that took him seven years to complete and
that literary critic Samuel Johnson,Pope’s contemporary,
pronounced the greatest translation in any language.
42. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the
largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant
fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and
rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore
some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than
30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
38. In 1850, Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on
Women, a treatise that argued for equal political and
legal rights for women and for changes in the
married women’s property laws.[/i]
In the above three sentences, the colored portion is the modifier, and I think it is an absolute phrase that modifies the clause before the comma.
Reason: - An absolute phrase consists of noun and noun modifiers. In the above sentences, I applied the following to identify it: work (noun) that.....(noun modifier); a giant figure (noun) that....(noun modifier); a treatise (noun) that... (noun modifier).
But Q#48 in oG12 (the first one above) describes the marked portion as appositive.
Please explain the difference between an appositive and an absolute phrase and how to identify them and how distinguish one from the other.
a work that took him seven years to complete and
that literary critic Samuel Johnson,Pope’s contemporary,
pronounced the greatest translation in any language.
42. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the
largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant
fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and
rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore
some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than
30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
38. In 1850, Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on
Women, a treatise that argued for equal political and
legal rights for women and for changes in the
married women’s property laws.[/i]
In the above three sentences, the colored portion is the modifier, and I think it is an absolute phrase that modifies the clause before the comma.
Reason: - An absolute phrase consists of noun and noun modifiers. In the above sentences, I applied the following to identify it: work (noun) that.....(noun modifier); a giant figure (noun) that....(noun modifier); a treatise (noun) that... (noun modifier).
But Q#48 in oG12 (the first one above) describes the marked portion as appositive.
Please explain the difference between an appositive and an absolute phrase and how to identify them and how distinguish one from the other.
