Evan Wix Appositive Review and Practice

• an appositive phrase consists of an appositive and any modifiers it has

• usually follows the noun/pronoun it identifies/describes. It can precede the noun/pronoun as well.

• Ex. A diligent and quick-witted student, Mark always gets good grades.

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• WHO

• WHAT

• WHERE

• WHEN

• WHY

• HOW

​Appositives Answer...

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• Instead of writing multiple choppy sentences about a topic, appositives can be used to combine thoughts and add information into the same sentence. ​

• A common error that young writers make is lack of sentence logic.

• Sentences may be written correctly, but the message they send is not necessary, relevant, or logical.

• We will strive in this unit to write logically by writing appositives with purpose!

• Appositives do not need to be right at the beginning of sentences! Instead, you can put them anywhere in the sentence to change up your sentence structure! Just watch out for punctuation!

• Appositives *usually start with words called noun markers.

• These are signal words that begin the noun phrase!