CONVENTIONS APPOSITIVES AND APPOSITIVE PHRASES
An appositive is a noun or pronoun placed after another noun or pronoun to
identify, rename, or explain it
An appositive phrase is a noun or pronoun with modifiers. It is placed next to a
noun or pronoun and adds information that identifies, renames, or explains it.
APPOSITIVE
APPOSITIVE PHRASE
My sister, Odessa prefers studying in Oscar-the best dealer on the team
the library
won the tournament
If the information in an appositive or appositive phrase is essential to
understanding the sentence, do not set it off with commas or dashes.
Example: Have you seen the movie The Hunger Games?
If the sentence is clear without the information in the appositive or appositive
phrase, do use commas or dashes to set it of
Example: Robert's wife, Jasmine, locked herself out of her house
A. DIRECTIONS: Read the following sentences. Underline the appositive or appositive
phrase in each sentence. Then, circle the word(s) each one explains,
1. Daniel showed us photos of one of England's major tourist attractions
Stonehenge
Stonehenge, an ancient monument, consists of huge stones arranged in circles.
The monument is located in Wiltshire, a county in southwest England,
In the 1950s, a British archaeologist, R. J.C. Atkinson, began excavating the site.
B. DIRECTIONS: Use each phrase below as an appositive phrase in a sentence.
Correctly punctuate cach sentence.
my cousin Belinda
medio
2 a friendly dog
magada el my family likes reading altbesigh
we nowe a friendly dog.
The football player can run foet
3. The football player
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