Hello,
Me too would like to know if "both" and "each" are considered as adjectives in the sentences above. To which parts of speech do they belong ?
Is "appositive" a function ?
On the other hand, shouldn't we normally write "The coach and the quarterback each WANTS to win the championship."
Many thanks,
Hela
The sentence is correct as written (plural verb).
An appositive, strictly speaking, is a word/phrase sharing with another sentence element an
identical syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence: although 'each' here, by analogy with a true appositive pronoun such as 'both', might loosely be termed an appositive, it fails to qualify technically, since, as a pronoun, it would require a singular verb, whereas the phrase to which it is supposedly apposed (the coach and the quarterback) is plural.
'Each' here is actually serving in a quasi-adverbial role.