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Appositives

Appositives. An appositive is a noun or pronoun placed after another noun or pronoun to identify, rename, or explain the preceding word. Pablo Picasso, a painter , lived in Spain. I want to visit Spain’s famous museum, Prado . Guernica, Picasso’s painting , impressed my father.

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Appositives

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  1. Appositives An appositive is a noun or pronoun placed after another noun or pronoun to identify, rename, or explain the preceding word.

  2. Pablo Picasso, apainter, lived in Spain. • I want to visit Spain’s famous museum, Prado. • Guernica, Picasso’spainting, impressed my father.

  3. An appositive phrase is a noun or pronoun with modifiers. It stands next to a noun or pronoun and adds information or details. • Willa Cather, an American novelist, wrote My Antonia. • Lisbon, a thriving port in Portugal, has often been the scene of espionage. • The shopping center – a network of cars, shops, and people – provides many jobs.

  4. Appositives and phrases can be compound. • The two settings, a city in England and a city in Russia, are contrasted in the book.

  5. Underline the appositive or appositive phrase. Draw an arrow to the word each modifies. • Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor of China, sent a fleet of ships carrying a huge army to attack Japan. • A typhoon, a powerful Pacific Ocean hurricane, struck the fleet.

  6. The ships were buffeted by hurricane-force winds, some measuring more than 119 kilometers per hour. • The typhoon actually saved the Japanese from their enemies, the Chinese. • The Japanese gave the storm a special name, kamikaze, which means “divine wind.”

  7. Write your own appositive phrase in a sentence. • (my favorite rock group) • Example: • Journey, my favorite rock group, no longer performs at concerts. • (my favorite actress)

  8. (my favorite book) • (my favorite TV show)

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