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Is it okay to start a sentence with an appositive?
As far as I'm concerned, you can insert appositives virtually anywhere in a sentence: beginning, middle, or end.
My best friend, Weird Al Yankovic, had what I would call an "interesting" ...
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What do you call work or tasks that are Not part of the main(highest priorty) work that a person is doing at the present time?
In the work that the OP describes, the cleanup is a task that must ultimately be performed.
Here, it can be seen as a concurrent task, i.e. it can be executed at the same time as other tasks.
This is ...
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What do you call work or tasks that are Not part of the main(highest priorty) work that a person is doing at the present time?
Sometimes that type of work is referred to as "housekeeping" -- i.e., "tasks that need to be done as a regular part of your work but are not the main purpose of your work."
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