Thursday, July 7, 2016

sentence meaning - "and somebody" as an appositive


Ran into this in a handout:



Jack, and Kate, is leaving the province tomorrow.



It looks a bit odd to me. Is this structure possible in English? If so, what is the benefit of it and what is this going to say? What is the difference between this and Jack and Kate are leaving the province tomorrow?



Answer



(From an AmE perspective)
It doesn't work so well with "and" (it's grammatically incorrect), although you could say:




Jack, along with Kate, is leaving the province tomorrow.



It would be better to move it to the end:



Jack is leaving the province tomorrow, along with Kate.



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