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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.
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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