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What if the sentence is lengthened to:  The parents named the child Tom, an old family name.

'an old family name' would be an appositive.  Would Tom also be an appositive?

The longer sentence is included in a section about appositives in DD's book.

One of her classmates insists it acts as an adjective, diagrammed with a backslash after child and before Tom.

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