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APPOSITION:

WHAT IS AN 'APPOSITION'?

An 'Apposition' is a grammatical device in which two or more noun phrases are placed side by side to indicate to the same person or thing.


Example: A famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore got the Nobel Prize.
                              ↓                             ↓
                     Noun phrase                Noun phrase
       
➤➤Both noun phrases refer to the same person.