Your last phone call
Your last phone call. Write THREE facts about the last person you talked to. We’ll come back to these. What do these sentences have in common?. My brother, a computer whiz, maintains databases for a small company. One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet was a moody, willful child.
Your last phone call
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Your last phone call • Write THREE facts about the last person you talked to. We’ll come back to these.
What do these sentences have in common? • My brother, a computer whiz, maintains databases for a small company. • One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet was a moody, willful child. • The boy looked at them, big black ugly insects.
SAV-vy Writers use SAV • S=Subject • A=Appositive=a noun phrase that provides more information about the subject. • V=Verb
Appositive Underlined • My brother, a computer whiz, maintains databases for a small company. (SAV) • One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet was a moody, willful child. (ASV) • The boy looked at them, big black ugly insects. (SVA)
Your Turn • Take those facts about your last phone call, and write a sentence with an appositive phrase: • SAV • ASV • SVA
