What do you call "library director" in the example below? How do you describe it grammatically? "Congratulations to library director Sarah Jones on her promotion."
@GrammarTable Huddleston and Pullum refer to such modifiers as "embellishments" of the proper name they precede. See CGAE 5.20.3, pp. 519-20.
@BlindMouths I wanted to get up and go to the other room to look this up in this book myself, but I also didn't want to get up and go to the other room to look this up in this book myself. Therefore, thank you. 😄
@BlindMouths This addresses your question directly, @tony__crawford! 😊 Thank you, @BlindMouths.
@BlindMouths @GrammarTable I confess I've never heard 'embellishments' used here, but this is very helpful, as I'm always in angst as to whether it should be 'library director Sarah Jones' or 'the library director, Sarah Jones'. I usually do the former when the 'embellishment' is short, the latter if long.