APPOSIT

IVES

QUICK REVIEW

• Phrase: group of words without a subject and verb• Prepositional• Ex: My teacher has lots of books in her classroom.

• Participial• Ex: This is the photograph taken at our family reunion.

• Clause: a group of words with a subject and verb• Independent and dependent

APPOSITIVES AND APPOSITIVE PHRASES• Appositive: a noun or pronoun that identifies or

explains the noun /pronoun that comes before it. • Ex: Our neighbor, Mrs. Smith, is kind to us.

• Appositive Phrase: a phrase made up of an appositive and all of its modifiers. • Ex: Pumpkin, our ten-year old cat, has a sweet

temperament.

** Appositives can also come at the end of a sentence. Ex: I gave a treat to Pumpkin, our ten year old cat.

** Helps you to combine sentences and avoid unnecessary repetition.

PUNCTUATING APPOSITIVES AND APPOSITIVE PHRASES• Use commas to set apart appositives when the info

in the appositive is not essential to the meaning of the sentence.

• Do not use commas if the appositive is essential info and/or needed to understand the sentence.

• Commas = non-essential information

• No commas = essential information

PRACTICE!

1. Laura the new student in our math class competed in a national track competition.

2. My cousin Jason broke the school record in the long jump.

3. The California track clubs the Jaguars and the Coasters shared first place.

4. The explorers Lewis and Clark traveled through the Northwest Territory.

5. Denver the capitol of Colorado is one mile above sea level.

1. Laura, the new student in our math class, competed in a national track competition.

2. My cousin Jason broke the school record in the long jump.

3. The California track clubs the Jaguars and the Coasters shared first place.

4. The explorers Lewis and Clark traveled through the Northwest Territory.

5. Denver, the capitol of Colorado, is one mile above sea level.