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List
● Prefix—sur-
● Root—vit/viv
● Suffix— -ly
● Grammar
Appositive clause
A construction in which a noun clause is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic relation to the other elements in the sentence
Examples
1) There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane hit it at a moment of high traffic. (Para. 1)
2) For a while he was Everyman, and thus proof that no man is ordinary. (Para. 4)
3) Since it was he who lost the fight we ought to come to again to the conclusion that people are powerless in the world. (Para. 8)
Compare: appositive clause and other relative clause
The fact that he went unidentified gave him a universal character. (Para. 4)
Skutnik added that “somebody had to go in the water”, delivering every hero’s line that is no less admirable for being repeated.