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Hi I stumbled on this sentence in the Knewton material
What religious historians understand about Sumerian creation myths comes from translations of the Eridu Genesis, a stone tablet found by the Euphrates River in 1914.
Here the subject is: What the religious historians understand
Main verb: comes
My problem is with: a stone tablet found by the Euphrates River in 1914 ?
there is a noun "tablet" which could be the subject and a verb "found" - why isn´t this an independent clause ?
(I believe it is an Appositive)
How can I become more accurate in identifying Appositives ?
-ed or -ing form makes it comfortable to recognize as a modifier, is there any foolproof rule for appositives?
thanks
What religious historians understand about Sumerian creation myths comes from translations of the Eridu Genesis, a stone tablet found by the Euphrates River in 1914.
Here the subject is: What the religious historians understand
Main verb: comes
My problem is with: a stone tablet found by the Euphrates River in 1914 ?
there is a noun "tablet" which could be the subject and a verb "found" - why isn´t this an independent clause ?
(I believe it is an Appositive)
How can I become more accurate in identifying Appositives ?
-ed or -ing form makes it comfortable to recognize as a modifier, is there any foolproof rule for appositives?
thanks
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29 Sep 2011, 04:14
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found is not a verb; it is a past participle; ‘a stone tablet found by the Euphrates River in 1914’ is a noun phrase defining the noun preceding it namely the Eridu Genesis.
An appositive is normally removed of the verb and hence will be found without a verb unless there are some rare exceptions, which I am not aware of.
Hence , the best clue will be lack of verb provided you do not confuse participles with verbs
An appositive is normally removed of the verb and hence will be found without a verb unless there are some rare exceptions, which I am not aware of.
Hence , the best clue will be lack of verb provided you do not confuse participles with verbs
30 Sep 2011, 07:11
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"found" is a not verb here.
The verb could have been of type "to be" such as "is, was etc"
E.g. a stone tablet WAS found by the Euphrates River in 1914
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