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The word "apposition" comes from the Latin words ad + pono (posit-), and literally means "that which has been put next to" something else. "The teacher, a man of great wisdom, calls the boy." In this sample sentence, "a man of great wisdom" sits in apposition to the word "teacher". The two sentence elements are interchangeable: the sentence has the same meaning if you read "The teacher calls the boy" or "A man of great wisdom calls the boy." Since the appositive word performs the same function as the word it sits next to, in Latin these words will always be in the same case, which in this case (ha) is nominative: "Magister, vir magnae sapientiae, puerum vocat." Appositive words or phrases are generally blocked off by commas for ease in identification.
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