At 02:05 PM 2/23/2009, R. Michael Medley wrote:
"In the western world
diamonds were at first not regarded as objects of
beauty; other stones such as emeralds and red garnets were
preferred."
Is "such as" here a preposition heading an adjectival
prepositional phrase
or some kind of conjunction, perhaps a conjunctive adverb akin to
"for
example"?
I suppose one could think of it as preposition, like for, with the
phrase adjectivally modifying stones. To me, though, such
as just serves as the introducer of an appositive, in which case I
guess one might call it an expletive.
gerald
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