Apposition used in a sentence

Apposition in a sentence as a noun

I don't find it awkward at all - it's just an apposition.

It's just apposition: a checker of style of language.

You can add "which is" to turn it into a relative clause, but it functions just fine as an apposition.

Since commas are used for apposition, it's unclear whether the author's mother is Ayn Rand.

Grammatically, it's an apposition [1] and "woman" is still a noun.

"Itself" is often used as an apposition, which is how it would have been interpreted in the context of your sentence.

In this sentence it seems to be a noun, which is qualified by the adjective "mayan", written simply as a noun in apposition "Maya".

"I'd like to thank God, and my mother, Ayn Rand, ..."> As long as English uses commas for both apposition and list separationThen don't, if it's a concern.

"MPI, the Message Passing Interface, began as a needed standardization above a dizzying array of..."The capitalization and apposition makes it pretty explicit.

The New Yorker is particularly fussy about including commas for nonrestrictive apposition, even when there is no possibility of a restrictive interpretation.