1 / 10

Appositives

Appositives. by Lori Richards. Objectives. The learner will : Define an appositive. Describe the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives. Use restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives in sentences effectively, employing the proper punctuation. An Appositive Is:.

inga
Download Presentation

Appositives

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Appositives by Lori Richards

  2. Objectives • The learner will: • Define an appositive. • Describe the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives. • Use restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives in sentences effectively, employing the proper punctuation.

  3. An Appositive Is: • a noun or noun phrase that renames or describes another noun right beside it. • For example: • My father’s name is Doug. • He is an avid hunter. • My father,Doug, is an avid hunter.

  4. An Appositive Is: • often set off by commas or dashes. • For example: • Two of my friends, Mary and Dylan, are on the same soccer team. • The girls’ birthdays – Elizabeth’s in November, Catherine’s in September, and Veronica’s in February – all fall at the same point in the month.

  5. An Appositive Is: • often introduced by namely, for example, that is, i.e., or e.g. • For example: • The winter months, for example, January and February, are the coldest. • Any subject in the humanities – for example, literature or history – can be used to teach writing skills and research techniques.

  6. More Appositive Examples: • The landscaper, Samuel, just bought a new riding lawnmower. • My sister, the teacher, just became a mother. • Many trees, for example, oaks and elms, lose their trees in the fall. • Only one person –namely, my mother– has the ability to calm me down.

  7. Identifying Appositives: • My brother, the research associate, works at a large polling firm. • I have never met the magistrate, Jean. • A white-tailed deer the most magnificent animal I had ever seen was cautiously edging toward a babbling brook. • Books that is old library books have the greatest smell to them.

  8. Nonrestrictive and Restrictive: • Nonrestrictive Appositives: • add non-defining, unnecessary information. • are set off by commas or dashes. • Restrictive Appositives: • Limits the noun it is in apposition to. • cannot be omitted from a sentence without affecting its the basic meaning. • A restrictive appositive should not be set off by commas.

  9. John Boy’s oldest sister, Mary Ellen, became a nurse. My other brother, Bill, lives in Ohio. Stephen King’s books, for example, Carrie and Cujo, are scary. John Boy’s sister Mary Ellen became a nurse. My brother Pat lives in Arizona. Stephen King’s book Cujo is scary. Nonrestrictive vs. Restrictive

  10. Nonrestrictive or Restrictive? • My sister Linda is even smarter than I am. • M.T. Anderson’s latest series Octavian Nothing was a great success. • My son has attended a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. • This is Bob my college roommate’s youngest brother.

More Related