@Article{, title={English and Arabic Apposition: A Contrastive Study}, author={Hasan Shaban Ali حسن شعبان علي}, journal={Basic Education College Magazine For Educational and Humanities Sciences مجلة كلية التربية الأساسية للعلوم التربوية والإنسانية}, volume={}, number={9}, pages={439-450}, year={2012}, abstract={Apposition is a kind of coordination in which the absence of a firm cohesion between its elements is indicated by a pause and by intonation .Grammarians consider that linguistic units such as the clause and the sentence are elements of appositional structure in addition to noun phrases .They identify different kinds of apposition :loose apposition where the appositive noun follows the governing noun in a rather loose connection and close apposition ,the relation is also close between the appositive and its governing words ,they felt as compound .

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