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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