Appositive phrases
• Provides more information about a noun.
• Most often appears directly after the noun it identifies or
renames:
Arizona Bill, "The Great Benefactor of Mankind," toured
Oklahoma with herbal cures and a powerful liniment.
• Commas are used to separate phrase from rest of sentence!
• May appear in front of a word that it identifies:
A dark wedge, the eagle hurtled earthward at nearly 200 miles
per hour.
Make a three column graph labeled with the following:
semicolons;
colons:
hyphens-
1. Used after a prefix that is followed by a proper noun or
adjective
2. Combines two independent clauses
3. Used to write a fraction as an adjective
4. Used on warning labels
5. separates words when dropping down to next line on
composition
6. Used after the salutation in a business letter
7. Used to separate words in a compound noun
8. Separates hour from minutes
9. Used before a conjunctive adverb
10.Used to introduce list of items
11. Used to separate two-word numbers
Relative Pronouns
 Begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the
same sentence.
 There are five relative pronouns:
that
which
who
whom
Independent clause
Subordinate clause
Here is the earring
that Tara lost.
She is a painter
who has an unusual talent.
Is this the woman
whom you saw earlier?
She is the one
whose house has a new alarm.
whose
Conjunctive adverbs
• Used to connect complete ideas (compound
sentence) or to transition by showing comparisons,
contrasts, or results.
• Use a ; BEFORE the word and a , AFTER
• That movie was great; however, I still prefer the
book.
accordingly
consequently
indeed
otherwise
again
finally
instead
then
also
furthermore
moreover
therefore
besides
however
nevertheless
thus