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Appositives are noun phrases that identify adjacent nouns or pronouns. They can occur as sentence openers, subject-verb splits, or sentences closers. Sentence Openers 1. One of eleven brothers and sisters , Harriet was a moody, willful child. Langston Hughes, “Road to Freedom”.

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  1. Appositives are noun phrases that identify adjacent nouns or pronouns. They can occur as sentence openers, subject-verb splits, or sentences closers.

  2. Sentence Openers1. One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet was a moody, willful child. Langston Hughes, “Road to Freedom”

  3. 2. A balding, smooth-faced man, he could have been anywhere between forty and sixty. Harper lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

  4. Subject-Verb Splits1. Poppa, a good quiet man, spent the last hours before our parting moving aimlessly about the yard, keeping to himself and avoiding me. Gordon Parks, “My Mother’s Dream for Me”

  5. 2. A man, a weary old pensioner with a bald dirty head and a stained brown corduroy waistcoat, appeared at the door of a small gate lodge.Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

  6. Sentence Closers1. The boy looked at them, big black ugly insects. Doris Lessing, African Stories

  7. 2. Hour after hour he stood there, silent, motionless, a shadow carved in ebony and moonlight. James V. Marshall, Walkabout

  8. Each scrambled sentence has one or more appositives. Identify them. Then unscramble the sentence parts and write out the sentence, punctuating it correctly. Compare your sentences with the originals.

  9. a. the tyrannosaurb. with huge flaring nostrilsc. a long snuffling inhalation that fluttered Baselton’s trouser legsd. gave Baselton a smell Michael Crichton, The Lost World

  10. OriginalWith huge flaring nostrils, the tyrannosaur gave Baselton a smell, a long snuffling inhalation that fluttered Baselton’s trouser legs.

  11. a. went over to Tom Will’s saloonb. in the late afternoonc. Will Hendersond. and editor of the Eaglee. owner Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

  12. OriginalIn the late afternoon Will Henderson, owner and editor of the Eagle, went over to Tom Will’s saloon.

  13. a. and the jingle of trace chainsb. was louderc. drag of brakesd. the sound of the approaching grain teamse. thud of big hooves on hard ground John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  14. OriginalThe sound of the approaching grain teams was louder, thud of big hooves on hard ground, drag of brakes, and the jingle of trace chains.

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