APPOSITIVE
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Definition of appositive
An appositive is a word or group of words that identifies or renames another word in a sentence.
Example :
The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table.
Look at this example ..
During the dinner conversation,
Clifford, the messiest eater at the table, ate mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano.
Have to remember,
If a word is an appositives it is NOT the subject. Examples :
Robert, a really good artist, is making a new painting.
Subject Appositive Verb
A really good artist, Robert is making a new painting.
Appositive Subject Verb
Punctuate the appositive correctly
The important point to remember
is that a nonessential appositive is always separated from the rest of the sentence with comma(s).
When the appositive begins the
sentence
A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
When the appositive interrupts the
sentence,
Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player, charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
And when the appositive ends the
sentence,
Upset by the bad call, the crowd cheered Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player who charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
From Adjective Clauses to Appositives
Jimbo Gold is a professional magician. Jimbo Gold performed at my sister's birthday
party.
Jimbo Gold, a professional magician, performed at my sister's birthday party
Four Variations
Appositives that Repeat a Noun
Negative Appositives
Multiple Appositives List Appositives with Pronouns
Appositives that Repeat a Noun
Although an appositive usually
renames a noun in a sentence, it may instead repeat a noun for the sake of clarity and emphasis
In America, as in anywhere else in the world, we must find a focus in our lives at an early age, a focus that is beyond the mechanics of earning a living or coping with a household.
(Santha Rama Rau, "An invitation to Serenity")
Negative Appositives
Most appositives identify what someone or
something is, but there are also negative appositives that identify what someone or something is not
Negative appositives begin with a word such
as not, never, or rather than.
Line managers and production employees, rather than staff
specialists, are primarily responsible for quality assurance.
Multiple Appositives
Two, three, or even more appositives may
appear alongside the same noun
As long as we don't overwhelm the reader
with too much information at one time, a double or triple appositive can be an effective way of adding supplementary details to a sentence.
Saint Petersburg, a city of almost five-
million people, Russia's secondlargest and northernmost metropolis, was designed three centuries ago by Peter the Great.
List Appositives with Pronouns
A final variation is the list
appositive that precedes a pronoun such as all or these or everyone
Streets of yellow row houses, the ochre plaster walls of old churches, the crumbling sea-green mansions now occupied by government offices--all seem in sharper focus, with their defects hidden by the snow.
(Leona P. Schecter, "Moscow")
Identifying Appositives
1. John Reed, an American journalist, helped
found the Communist Labor Party in America.
ANSWER
An American journalist
2. My sister, who is a supervisor at Munchies, drives a company car.
ANSWER
Who is a supervisior at Munchies
3. I took a cookie from Gretel, who is the woodcutter's daughter.
ANSWER
The woodcutters daughter
4. I once saw Margot Fonteyn, the famous ballerina.
ANSWER
The famous ballerina
5. (Combine the two sentences below by turning the second sentence into an appositive. Lewis Carroll is the author of Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University.
ANSWER
Lewis Carroll , a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University, is the author of Alice in Wonderland.
6. (Combine the following sentences into one clear sentence: turn the first three sentences into a list appositive. Jackie Robinson was a fierce competitor. Jackie Robinson was a daring runner. Jackie Robinson was a solid hitter. Jackie Robinson led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six World Series in his ten years with the team.
ANSWER
A fierce competitor, a daring runner, and a solid hitter, Jackie Robinson led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six World Series in his ten years with the team.
7. The Duncan sofa, __________ is highly valued in today 's antique furniture market.
a colonial masterpiece, a colonial masterpiece which it is a colonial masterpiece that whose colonial masterpiece
8. Ulysses S . Grant, ________, showed great magnanimity in receiving the surrender of his archrival, Robert E . Lee at the end of the Civil War. that was the supreme commander of Northern forces who supremely commanding Northern forces he was the supreme commander of Northern forces the supreme commander of Northern forces
9. Though renowned for his work with the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered for his invention of the telephone, ________.
that it was an invention of ingenuity and impact it was an invention of ingenuity and impact an invention of ingenuity and impact invention ingeniously and impaction
10. Mars, __________, has been a source of human fascination for untold generations of sky gazers.
the fourth planet from the Sun it is the fourth planet from the Sun which the fourth planet from the Sun is it is it the fourth planet from the Sun
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