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The Appositive and Appositive Phrase. Review of SENTENCES. What is a sentence ? A complete sentence expresses a complete thought; it contains a subject and verb. The class received an assignment . What are some of the types of sentences? There are simple, compound, complex.
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Review of SENTENCES • What is a sentence? • A complete sentence expresses a complete thought; it contains a subject and verb. • The classreceived 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 • 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 • 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? • Weeeeell… an APPOSITIVE is a noun that identifies, describes, or renames another noun or pronoun that it follows. • Therefore, you must be able to identify a noun in a sentence to understand or create appositives.
An appositive is a word placed after another word to explain or identify it. • The appositive almostalways 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 • An appositive phraseconsists 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 alwaysset off by commas. Appositives NOT needed in the sentence use commas: • 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! • 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. • Slushies satisfy my sugar craving. They’re only $1.49! Slushies, only $1.49, satisfy my sugar craving. • What’s the subject? • What’s the verb? • Which is the appositive?
Appositives aren’t alwaysset off by commas. Appositives needed in the sentence do not use commas: • 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 nerdypapers during her youth. child. • Relane, a nerdy child, began correctingpapers during her youth.
Now, let’s apply what we’ve learned about appositives. First, let’s apply our understanding to this online “QUIZ.” (http://www.quia.com/pop/8755.html?AP_rand=171046037)
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!
