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The Appositive

The Appositive. Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. Ms. Sickler is my teacher. She is from New York. Example: appositive noun My teacher, Ms. Sickler, is from New York. appositive. The Appositive.

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The Appositive

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  1. The Appositive Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. Ms. Sickler is my teacher. She is from New York. Example: appositive noun My teacher, Ms. Sickler, is from New York. appositive

  2. The Appositive Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. Example: noun phrase Ms. Sickler, my English teacher, is from New York. appositive

  3. The Appositive Can you HEAR the appositive?

  4. The Appositive

  5. The Appositive Appositives that interrupt a sentence are marked with commas on both sides.

  6. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. My dad, a graphic designer, works from home. A B C

  7. Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. Melanie,a freshman, is an excellent swimmer. A B C

  8. Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. The poppy,that pretty orange flower you see on the highway, is the CA state flower. A B C

  9. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. Although I grew up in the countryside of NY, (A) I lived and worked in NYC for a while. (B) My apartment, (C) built in the 1930s, (D) was pretty small. (E)

  10. WAIT! Appositives are not always in the middle of the sentence. They can begin or end a sentence, too. Mike, a new student, wanted to do his best. A new student, Mike wanted to do his best. Trying to be friendly, we all greeted Mike, a new student. appositive

  11. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. A former Civil War re-enactor, my dad made all of his costumes. A B

  12. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. No one said hi to Joe, the class bully. A B

  13. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket. (A) (B)

  14. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. Mimi, our cat, came from Cat House on the Kings shelter in Parlier. (A) (B) (C)

  15. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. A glutton for attention, Mimi always tries to sleep on my keyboard. (A) (B)

  16. The AppositiveWhiteboard Practice Find the appositive and write the letter on your whiteboard. Watching her get off the train, he pulled out the ring and got onto one knee. (A) (B) THIS SENTENCE HAS NO APPOSITIVE! The “A” clause is a modifier with a verb, not another noun or noun phrase, so it can’t be an appositive.

  17. The AppositivePAIR SHARE • Keep your whiteboard close. Open your bellringer journal. • Pick a sentence that you could add an appositive to. • In your journal, write down the sentence, adding an appositive. • Read the new sentence to your partner.

  18. The AppositivePAIR SHARE • Pick another sentence from your journal. • Write the sentence on your whiteboard. • Give the whiteboard to your partner and have them re-write it with an appositive.

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