can a table returned from a udf be just another item in a resultset?

Hi.  We run 2012 enterprise.  My udf returns a table.  Can that table be returned as just another item (but of type table) in the resultset of the query that called the udf?  Say without cross apply or anything else that would yet permutate combos of regular column values and table values.  I have multiple calls to the udf and believe I'd have a mess if the permutations arent controlled from a loop.