Timeline for Must Appositives be in the Same Person?
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 22:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | This is perhaps a reflection on the fact that 'person' doesn't always correspond 1-to-1 with who is really being addressed. When one says 'People should not use mobiles while they're driving' it's often a hedged form of 'You should not use a mobile while you're driving'. // Perhaps 'I beg you, reader, to give ...' is more felicitous (though not more acceptable). | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | John Lawler | No. Noun phrases do not agree in person. Indeed, appositives are virtually always third person, since they're referential. But they can be in apposition with a noun phrase of any person - first, second, or third. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 21:41 | history | asked | Fred Bailey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |