Faulty predication
The subject and the predicate should make sense together. When they don’t, the error is known as faulty predication.
Tiffany, not her welfare, may not be safe.
The exemption, not the elderly, will be abolished.
Faulty apposition
An appositive and the noun to which it refers should be logically equivalent. When they are not, the error is known as faulty apposition.
The tax accountant is a person, not a field.
Exercise: Mixed constructions 1
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Exercise: Mixed constructions 3
Exercise: Mixed constructions 4
predicate A verb and its objects, complements, and modifiers.
appositive A noun or noun phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun: Bailey, the representative from Alabama, voted for the bill.