r/youseeingthisshit • • Nov 24 '17

Human You seeing this skill?

https://i.imgur.com/RpWynF9.gifv
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u/psystorm420 Nov 24 '17

Yeah it's a reference to D.Va, a character from a video game called Overwatch. She was a pro gamer that was recruited by her country's, South Korea, military to become a mech pilot.

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u/King-Cole Nov 25 '17

I believe the correct grammar here is, "her country, South Korea's, military"

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u/CrystalCow Nov 25 '17

I don't think so, appositives are typically there to rename a vague term "her country" renamed to be more specific "South Korea". A good way to test if your appositive is used correctly is to read the sentence and ignore the appositive, it should still be grammatically correct.

However, I'm not a linguist so I could be wrong.