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Par. 141-143.] APPOSITION.

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141 Apposition with Indirect Object, &c.
The Indirect Object is not often emphatic enough to have
another Indirect Object in Apposition to it. But such a
construction may occur:
Will you give him your confidence - a rascal banished from
all respectable society? "
142 The Noun when used Possessively, being almost an
Adjective, is rarely or never followed by a Noun in Apposition. It would scarcely be English to say:
"Thllis picture was not mine but my brother's - an artist himself, and a great connoisseur."
Even were such an Appositional use allowable, the Possessive could not be tolerated in apposition; the Objective
would have to be employed, e.g. " artist" above, and would
have to be regarded as the Object of an implied " of."
In the following examples there is no Apposition; the
Noun that was once Appositional has now become part of
a Compound Noun: —
(1) " William the Conqueror's character;" "King Alfred's
reign."
The word " house " must be supplied after each of the
Possessive Nouns in the following Example:
(1) "Let us go to Macmillan's the Publisher's."
Apposition with an Implied Noun.
143 Sometimes a Noun is "in Apposition" not to
another preceding Noun, but to some Noun implied
from the preceding words: -
(1) " He was said to have disobeyed his parents-a
fault deemed unpardonable in those days."
(2) " You were silent when accused-a clear confession of guilt."