The Appositive and Appositive
Phrase
Review of SENTENCES
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What is a sentence?
A complete sentence expresses a complete
thought; it contains a subject and verb.
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The class received an assignment.
What are some of the types of sentences?
There are simple, compound, complex.
Let’s generate an example for each fore
mentioned type of sentences.
Review of NOUNS
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What is a noun?
A noun names a person, place, thing, or an
idea.
What are some of the types of nouns?
There are common, proper, abstract,
concrete, compound, and collective nouns.
Let’s generate an example for each fore
mentioned noun, type of noun.
Review of PRONOUNS
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What is a pronoun?
A pronoun replaces a noun.
What are some of the types of pronouns?
There are personal, demonstrative,
interrogative, relative, possessive, infinitive,
etc.
Let’s generate an example for the fore
mentioned pronouns.
What’s this got to do with anything?
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Weeeeell…
an APPOSITIVE is a noun that identifies,
describes, or renames another noun or
pronoun that it follows.
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Therefore, you must be able to identify a
noun in a sentence to understand or create
appositives.
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An appositive is a word placed after
another word to explain or identify it.
The appositive almost always appears
after the word it explains or identifies. It is
always a noun or a pronoun, and the word
it explains is also a noun or pronoun.
Examples
My uncle, a lawyer, is visiting us.
My teacher, Miss Marshall, is very strict.
Appositive Phrases
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An appositive phrase consists of the
appositive and its modifiers, which may
themselves be phrases.
examples
My radio, an old portable, is in the repair
shop.
The boys climbed the mountain, one of the
highest in the West.
Appositives aren’t always set off by
commas. Appositives NOT needed in the
sentence use commas:
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Beginning: The largest city in Texas,
Houston is home to the Astros.
Middle: Chemistry, Sue's favorite subject,
is easy for her.
End: Have you ever read The Red Pony,
a novel by John Steinbeck?
Your Turn!
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Generate TWO sentences of your own.
Once you’ve done that, turn the 2nd sentence
into an appositive that fits correctly into the 1st
sentence.
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Slushies satisfy my sugar craving. They’re only $1.49!
Slushies, only $1.49, satisfy my sugar craving.
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What’s the subject?
What’s the verb?
Which is the appositive?
Appositives aren’t always set off
by commas. Appositives needed in
the sentence do not use commas:
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Sylvia’s daughter Relane teaches English.
Sylvia may have more than one daughter
so a specific name needs to be
mentioned and NO commas are needed.
Combining Sentences
Two sentences can be combined by
turning 1 of the 2 into an appositive:
 Relane began correcting
She’s a nerdy
papers during her youth. child.
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Relane, a nerdy child, began correcting
papers during her youth.
Now, let’s apply what we’ve
learned about appositives.
First, let’s apply our understanding
to this online “QUIZ.”
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http://www.quia.com/pop/8755.html?AP_rand=171046037
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Now, let’s apply what we’ve
learned about appositives.
Second, please open your maroon grammar
book to pages 97-99. Make certain to have a
pencil AND paper for this is your assignment:
pg 99’s #23-38 – FOLLOW directions!