APPOSITIVES
An appositive is a noun or a pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or
give additional information about it. Essentially, an appositive renames another noun or pronoun.
An appositive phrase consists of an appositive and any words that modify it.
Identifying Prepositional Phrases
1. Find the preposition
Frequently used prepositions
about
above
across
after
against
along
among
around
at
before
behind
below
beneath
beside
between
beyond
but (except)
by
concerning
down
during
except
for
from
in
inside
into
like
near
of
off
on
onto
out
outside
over
past
since
through
to
toward
under
until
up
upon
with
within
without
2. Identify its object
3. Find any modifiers of that object
Identifying the Function of Prepositional Phrases
1. Find the prepositional phrase.
2. Identify the word it modifies.
3. Determine the part of speech of that word.
4. If the word being modified is a noun or a pronoun, it is an adjective phrase. If the word being
modified is a verb, adjective, or adverb, it is an adverb phrase.
Adjective Phrases
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Follow the noun or pronoun that they modify
Tell which one?, what kind?, how much?, or how many? about that noun or pronoun
Adverb Phrases
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Can be anywhere in the sentence
Tell how?, when?, where?, why?, or to what extent? about the verb, adjective or adverb they
modify