Grammar

1. Grammar Created using: Sentence Composing for High School Students by Don Killgallon, Image Grammar by Harry Noden, and notes from TCU APSI Ann Jackson.

2. On your paper: • Write a simple sentence. • Example: The cat ate. • After you have created the sentence, sketch an image of your sentence. Stick figures are acceptable.

3. Appositive Phrases • A noun that renames the noun before it (use an article – the, an, a – to be sure it is an appositive) • Example: a rough looking male • New sentence: The cat, a rough looking male, ate. • Now you try: in your notes write the definition of appositive phrases, create your own, rewrite your sentence using the phrase, and draw a new sketch of your sentence.

4. Sentences written by professional writers: • It went away slowly. • It went away slowly, the feeling of disappointment that came sharply after the thrill that made his shoulders ache. Hemingway • The land that lay stretched out before him became of vast significance. • The land that lay stretched out before him became of vast significance, a place peopled by his fancy with a new race of men sprung from himself. Anderson • However, I looked with a mixture of admiration and awe at Peter. • However, I looked with a mixture of admiration and awe at Peter, a boy who could and did imitate a police siren every morning on his way to the showers. Russell • That night in the south upstairs chamber Emmet lay in a kind of trance. • That night in the south upstairs chamber, a hot little room where a full-leafed chinaberry tree shut all the air from the single window, Emmet lay in a kind of trance.West

5. Practice: • each scrambled sentence has one or more appositives. Identify them. Then unscramble the sentence parts and write out the sentence punctuating it correctly. • Example: • an old, bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater • the judge • and was reading over some notes he had taken • had stopped examining the animals • on the back of a dirty envelope Jessamyn West, “The Lesson” Answer: The judge, an old bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater, had stopped examining the animals and was reading over some notes he had taken on the back of a dirty envelope.

6. Warm Up: Combine the sentences and highlight the appositive phrase. You may eliminate some words. • a.She was near the statue. b.She was an obvious tourist. c.She was an oriental lady. d.She had a Kodak camera. • a.This is about Gone with the Wind. b.That is the movie with the most reissues. c.It originated as a novel. d.The novel was of the old South. e.The novel was by someone who was unglamorous. f.The someone was also unknown. g.The someone was an authoress.

7. Answers: • Near the statue was an obvious tourist, an oriental lady, with a Kodak camera. • Gone with the Wind, the movie with the most reissues, originated as a novel of the old South by an unglamorous and unknown authoress.

8. Now, you try! Add an appositive at the slash mark. • My bed was an army cot,/. • He, /, had fled because of superior perceptions and knowledge. • There was Major Hunter, /, /. (two appositive phrases) • When finished, turn in. Turn to page 268 in Interactive Reader, write the Vocab words in Vocab section of binder. • Read and complete questions in margin for “The Law of Life.” • On a sheet of notebook paper, answer the question on the bottom of page 277 in ACE Format.